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immigration

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im·mi·grate  (m-grt)
v. im·mi·grat·ed, im·mi·grat·ing, im·mi·grates
v.intr.
To enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native. See Usage Note at migrate.
v.tr.
To send or introduce as immigrants: Britain immigrated many colonists to the New World.

[Latin immigrre, immigrt-, to go into : in-, in; see in-2 + migrre, to depart.]

immi·gration n.
immi·gration·al adj.

immigration
Noun
the act of coming to a foreign country in order to settle there [Latin immigrare to go into]
immigrate vb
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.immigrationimmigration - migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)
aliyah - (Judaism) immigration of Jews to Israel; "students making aliyah"
migration - the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
2.immigration - the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval; "the increased immigration strengthened the colony"
body - a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative body"
Translations

immigration [ɪmɪˈgreɪʃən] ninmigración f
immigration [ɪmɪˈgreɪʃən] immigrant nimmigration f
immigration [ɪmɪˈgreɪʃən] nEinwanderung f;
(at airport etc) → Einwanderungsstelle f
cpdEinwanderungs-
immigration [ɪmɪˈgreɪʃən] nimmigrazione f

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Ah Moy got no farther ashore than the detention sheds of the Federal Immigration Board, whence he was deported to China on the next Pacific Mail steamer.
People who don't know a Chileno from a Kanaka can afford to hang out liberal ideas about Chinese immigration, but a fellow that has to fight for his bone with a lot of mongrel coolies hasn't any time for foolishness.
First came the Chinese immigration (or, rather, it was already there, having come there slowly and insidiously during the previous years).
 
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