emigration
- immigration - migration
‘emigrate’, ‘emigration’, ‘emigrant’
If you emigrate, you leave your own country and go to live permanently in another country.
He received permission to emigrate to Canada.
He had emigrated from Germany in the early 1920's.
People who emigrate are called emigrants. The act of emigrating is called emigration. However, these words are less frequent than immigrant and immigration.
‘immigrate’, ‘immigration’, ‘immigrant’
If you immigrate to a country, you go to live in that country permanently.
They immigrated to Israel.
However, it is more common to say that someone emigrates from a country than to say that someone immigrates to a country.
People that leave their own country to live in another country are called immigrants.
The company employs several immigrants.
The process by which people come to live in a country is called immigration.
The government has changed its immigration policy.
‘migrate’, ‘migration’, ‘migrant’
When people migrate, they temporarily move to another place, usually a city or another country, in order to find work.
The only solution people can see is to migrate.
Millions have migrated to the cities.
This process is called migration.
New jobs are encouraging migration from the cities of the north.
People who migrate are called migrants or migrant workers.
She was a migrant looking for a place to live.
In South America there are three million migrant workers.