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transmigrant
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trans·mi·grant  (trns-mgrnt, trnz-)
n.
1. One that transmigrates.
2. One in transit through a country on the way to the country in which one intends to settle.

transmigrant [trænzˈmaɪgrənt ˈtrænzmɪgrənt]
n
an emigrant on the way to the country of immigration
adj
passing through from one place or stage to another


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Topics include resistance and the status of the nation in East Timor, Filipino domestic workers and transmigrants as their own global nation, migration in Indonesia and Indonesians as Australians, the Butonese in the Banda Islands, Bugis migration to Samarinda (East Kalimantan), Florenese women at home and abroad, and eastern Indonesian migrants and their shifting subjectivity.
They continued in independent Indonesia and, during just six recent Five Year Plans (from 1969 to 1997), the government moved 1,164,902 families (some five million people) from the crowded inner islands to more sparsely populated outer islands, with about three million spontaneous transmigrants following suit (Tirtosudarmo, R.
Transmigrants are given land, government built houses, financial assistance for resettlement and access to better jobs.
 
 
 
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