The phrase "foreign descent" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe a person's ancestry or origin that is from a country outside of their current place of residence. For example, "The President was born in the United States but had foreign descent from his grandfather who was born in Ireland."
Citizens of foreign descent in these states are often identified and remain as "foreigners," regardless of how long they have been living in their adopted countries, even if they are second- or third-generation citizens.
Half the population of Rotterdam is already of foreign descent.
It favors an immediate end to immigration and the repatriation of people of foreign descent.
"Before, you know, we see mzungu in films," he said, using the African term for a person of foreign descent.
A lively debate continued in The Netherlands about the value, meaning, and appropriate methods of integration of foreign residents and citizens of foreign descent.
But it would also "encourage" voluntary repatriation of legal migrants and "those of foreign descent to return to their lands of ethnic origin".
After a century of high immigration and the growing number of second and third generation citizens of foreign-descent, both approaches have shown their strengths and weaknesses, their successes and failures.
The German government has been seeking ways to integrate the country's 7.5 million people of foreign origin, of which a third are of Turkish descent.
Instead, they will want a measure that can answer one of two distinct questions: which genes are most likely to be of foreign origin and which are most likely to have arisen by lineal descent.
"I am not the first and I won't be the last person to call up foreign players of Italian descent.
The two oldest still-functioning events of this kind in Africa, Dak'Art in Senegal and the Photography Biennial in Bamako, are restricted to exhibiting primarily artists from this continent (or, rarely, foreign artists of African descent).
