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/maɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/
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[ UK /maɪɡɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /maɪɡɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding
- a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)
- the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
- (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule
How To Use migration 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.
- This was later followed by a second book with the title Migrations.
- A second wave of emigrations of Ashkenazic Jews from Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought larger numbers of Yiddish-speaking, traditional Orthodox Jews into the Seattle community. Weaving Women's Words: Seattle Stories
- Migration into the cities is putting a strain on already stretched resources.
- Tourism has also accelerated immigration to Panajachel and furthered a gradual diversification in its social composition.
- The Australian Alps are also known for the annual migration of Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) which aestivate in the mountains each summer. Australian Alps montane grasslands
- 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.
- But emigration to the United States had made this restriction anachronistic and so the Liberal government altered the law.
