Meaning of immigration | Babel Free

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1. The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose of permanent residence.
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2. Departure from one's native land to settle in another:emigration, exodus, migration, transmigration.
3. The process of going through immigration checks at a border checkpoint.
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4. (a person) who has come into a foreign country to live there permanently, not as a tourist or visitor. The eastern part of the city is inhabited by immigrants; the immigrant population. immigrant مُهاجِر имигрант imigrante přistěhovalec(ký) der Einwanderer/die Einwanderin immigrant; indvandrer; indvandrer- μετανάστηςinmigrante immigrant مهاجر maahanmuuttaja immigrant/-ante מהגר प्रवासी doseljenik bevándorló imigran innflytjandi immigrante 移民 이민자 imigrantas imigrants, ieceļotājs pendatang immi...
5. the act of entering a country in order to settle there. immigrasie هِجْرَه имиграция imigração přistěhovalectví die Einwanderung immigration; indvandring μετανάστευσηinmigración immigratsioon مهاجرت maahanmuutto immigrationהגירה प्रवासीय doseljavanje bevándorlás imigrasi innflutningur fólks immigrazione 移住 이민 imigracija imigrācija, ieceļošana imigresen immigratieinnvandringimigracja مهاجرت، كوچ، ليږد، كډه imigração imigrare иммиграция prisťahovalectvo priseljevanje imigracija immigration, inv...
6. The action or process of immigrating.
7. The place where authorities check the documents of people entering a country.
8. the movement of non-native people into a country in order to settle there
9. the part of a port, airport, etc where government employees examine the passports, visas, etc of foreign nationals entering the country
10. the act of immigrating.
11. a group or number of immigrants.
12. '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.

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Examples

“The Bohemians had come then, and after them the Poles. People said that old man Durham himself was responsible for these immigrations; he had sworn that he would fix the people of Packingtown so that they would never again call a strike on him, and so he had sent his agents into every city and village in Europe to spread the tale of the chances of work and high wages at the stockyards.”

“Another measure of the inadequacy of the Immigration and Nationality Act has been the huge volume of private immigration bills introduced in Congress. These are bills to deal with individual hardship cases for which the general law fails to provide. In the Eighty-seventh Congress over 3,500 such bills were introduced. Private immigration bills make up about half of our legislation today.”

“[Stephen] Miller’s uncle, a neuroscientist, has been welcomed onto the public stage for his denunciations of his nephew’s immigration policies, which the elder Miller has characterized as hypocritical: the Millers’ not-so-distant Jewish ancestors were, of course, immigrants themselves.”

“It took ages to get through immigration last time.”

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