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emigration Definition

emi·gra·tion (em′i grās̸hən)

noun

  1. the act of emigrating
  2. emigrants collectively

Etymology: LL emigratio

emigration Synonyms

emigration

n.

migration, resettlement, relocation, reestablishment, defection, expatriation, departure, removal, leaving, displacement, moving, moving away, crossing, transplanting, uprooting, exodus, exile, trek, journey, movement, march, travel, voyage, wandering, peregrination, shift, settling, homesteading, colonization, Volkswanderung (German), brain drain*.

Antonyms immigration*, arriving, remaining.

emigration Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • child: Mainly policy and correspondence files relating to the emigration of children under the Children Act, 1908, ch.
  • people: Between 1861 and 1950 there was a mass of emigration of 21 million people who settled in the United States, Australia and Europe.

Converse of object

  • assist: In such instances of assisted emigration, the parish usually provided any necessary shoes and clothing.
  • encourage: In 1844 the Swiss government began to encourage emigration to the United States.
  • force: Some landlords resorted to forced emigration of their tenants in an effort to'solve ' the problem in Ireland.
  • stimulate: The failed German revolution in 1848 stimulated emigration to America.

Adjective modifier

  • large-scale: Large-scale emigration of Cornish miners to new mining fields overseas begins 1876.
  • Irish: Maya was the only student to think about Irish emigration.
  • Jewish: The second major change in German policy was the ban on Jewish emigration overseas.
  • net: For example, net emigration from Scotland in recent years has been much lower than in the 1960s or even the 1980s.
  • Russian: They had all settled in Paris - the ' second ' center of Russian emigration at that time.
  • mass: Leave aside the mass emigration of the famine years.

Modifies a noun

  • agent: The Governor-General appointed emigration agents who were responsible for selecting the ships.
  • trade: This article seeks to highlight a further aspect, the emigration trade, by focusing on the specific case of mid-nineteenth-century Cornwall.
  • scheme: Extended families followed later in assisted emigration schemes, which continued right up the 1960's.
  • study: Also receiving a degree at the university last week was free-lance journalist and writer Hugh Dan MacLennan who completed his phd on emigration studies.
  • record: Emigration records emigrate Do not expect to find centrally or locally held records of emigrants in Scotland itself.
  • policy: He argued that there was no extermination policy toward the Jews, only an emigration policy.

Noun used with modifier

  • mass: They believe the Israeli Government's intention is to indirectly force a second mass emigration in coming years.
  • page: Return to top of page Emigration and Immigration Some Emigrants from Derbyshire to Australia and New Zealand - brief biographical details of known emigrants.

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