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US
/ˌɪməˈɡɹeɪʃən/
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[ UK /ˌɪmɪɡɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /ˌɪmɪɡɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)
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the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval
the increased immigration strengthened the colony
How To Use immigration In A Sentence
- Someone who really wanted to stop unsanctioned immigration would begin here, by busting the small contractors who employ these workers on a contingent basis.
- Tourism has also accelerated immigration to Panajachel and furthered a gradual diversification in its social composition.
- But nothing prepared them for life in this squatters' community of Tijuana, a city of three million souls that is known as the Wild West of Mexico's northward immigration.
- Rivlin said that anti-immigration rhetoric has galvanized immigrant voters, bringing them to the streets in protest and to the polling booth.
- The economic case for substantial immigration is thin, and there are significant ecological and other arguments against it.
- The screening of this film will be followed by a discussion on illegal immigration.
- Joan Xie , Esq. is a senior attorney who specialized in business immigration law and immigration litigation.
- The shell-shocked stowaway was discovered running around the immigration detention centre at Manchester Airport after a flight from Jamaica.
- He is a conservative Republican who backs a flat tax, pushes for regulatory relief, and favors curbs on immigration.
- This antimodernist nativism pervaded the 1920s, but it was particularly visible in the scientific racism of the eugenics movement, the xenophobia of the "100 percent American" movement, the sharp resurgence in the Ku Klux Klan, the post – World War One Red Scare (directed primarily at immigrant radicals), and in a series of draconian immigration restriction acts. 11 Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood