what is a second generation immigrant

A second-generation immigrant is an individual who was born and raised in the United States and has at least one foreign-born parent. The term "second-generation" extends the concept of first-generation by one generation, and it can refer to a member of either the second generation of a family to inhabit, but the first natively born in, a country, or the second generation born in a country. The term "second-generation immigrant" attracts criticism due to it being an oxymoron, as critics say that a "second-generation immigrant" is not an immigrant since being "second-generation" means that the person is born in the country and the persons parents are the immigrants in question. In the United States, among demographers and other social scientists, "second generation" refers to people with one foreign-born parent.