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(intransitive, ornithology) To take part in abmigration.
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(ornithology) A northward summer migration of birds without a corresponding southward migration the previous autumn.
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A non-citizen of a country who has been granted asylum in that country.
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A person who has applied for asylum in a foreign country but has not yet been granted refugee status by that country.
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p. 2009, A EU-wide work permit allowing high-skilled non-EU citizens to work and live in any country within the European Union, excluding Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom, which are not subject to the proposal.
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The migration of educated or talented people from less economically advanced areas to more economically advanced areas, especially to large cities or richer countries.
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An increase in the number of skilled workers in a country as a result of immigration.
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A temporary visa issued to a person already in a country, while other more permanent arrangements are being made or decided by the immigration officials.
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A person who has relocated in response to anthropogenic climate change.
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A person who is forced to relocate in response to anthropogenic climate change that has made their region unliveable.
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(transitive) To settle (a group of people, a species, or the like) in a place as a colony.
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(Isle of Man) An immigrant.
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A native of a colonised country who acts as the agent of the coloniser.
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Migration back again, or in the opposite direction.
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Someone who immigrates illegally.
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(business, transitive, intransitive) To relocate to another country.
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A refugee, especially of war or of forced migration.
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(US) An undocumented immigrant who is qualified for relief under the DREAM Act.
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Alternative spelling of ecomigration [The migration of populations for economic or ecological reasons, often as a result of the deterioration of land quality or a shortage of water.]
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One who migrates for economic or ecological reasons.
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The migration of populations for economic or ecological reasons, often as a result of the deterioration of land quality or a shortage of water.
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A person who emigrates from one region to another to seek an improvement in living standards.
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A person fleeing poverty rather than political persecution or the results of a natural disaster.
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(now rare) The movement of eels, especially migratory.
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Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called a migrant.
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The act of emigrating; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence.
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One who emigrates; an emigrant.
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An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another.
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a migrant, one who moves from one region to another.
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Alternative form of emigre [One who has departed their native land, often as a refugee.]
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(obsolete, transitive) To form into a people or community.
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A person forced to migrate away from a traditional living area due to local environmental degradation.
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Somebody who flees a country due to environmental issues, rather than political, religious or economic ones.
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Alternative form of Euroimmigrant [Someone who is a European immigrant or descended from European colonists or immigrants.]
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Relating to the migration of African-Americans to Kansas mostly between 1879 and 1881, during the Reconstruction era of American history.
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An expatriate; a person who lives outside their own country.
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voluntary migration from one's native land to another
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Of or relating to exportation or exports.
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Of or relating to an immigrant or his family
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A method of employing people in remote areas by flying them temporarily to the work site instead of permanently relocating them.
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A person or group seeking political or personal freedom through emigration to and settlement of open land.
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(Britain) especially one granted to a missionary.
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(informal) A move to another place in the hope of curing an addiction etc.
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Citizenship that is granted in exchange for substantial donations or investments on the part of the immigrant.
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Residence in a country that is granted in exchange for substantial donations or investments on the part of the immigrant.
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(US, historical) The movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that occurred in the 20th century.
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(US) A US work permit, officially known as United States Permanent Resident Card.
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Alternative form of green carder [(US) A Mexican citizen who has a green card to work in the United States, especially one who lives in Mexico and commutes across the border.]
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A person with temporary permission to work in another country.
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A country which is the target of immigration.
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The illegal transportation of a person or persons across an international border.
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Relating to hypermigration.
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(sometimes offensive) A person who is within the boundaries of a political state without the authorization of the government of that state; a national of another country who has entered or stayed without permission.
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(countable, offensive) Someone who has immigrated into a country by bypassing customs and immigration controls.
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The migration of people across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destined country.
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A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.
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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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Of or pertaining to immigration.
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A person who migrates to another part of the same region or country
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(derogatory) The choice of some German writers to remain in Nazi Germany despite being opposed to Nazism.
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(business) An employee of a multinational company who is from a foreign country, but is transferred from a foreign subsidiary to the corporation’s headquarters
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reciprocal migration; interchange of dwelling place by migration
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(geography) Permanent movement within a particular country
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An internally displaced person.
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Someone who is forced to flee his or her home but who remains within his or her country's borders. Abbreviated as IDP.
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(geography) Permanent movement from one region of a country to another.
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(geography) Permanent movement within one region of a country.
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Of or pertaining to invasion
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One who wanders in; an immigrant
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(Canada, dated) A person who is not a citizen of Canada but who has been legally admitted to Canada as a permanent resident.
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(countable, informal, US) Somebody who immigrated lawfully.
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The coordinated ending of coastal development; abandonment, demolition, and relocation of human-made structures; and migration of people away from a shoreline that is allowed to migrate inland.
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(obsolete) The act of issuing or flowing out.
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(Hong Kong, dated in Japan) One who stays overnight or lives in a 24-hour McDonald's.
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(US, economics) A dollar sent home by a foreign migrant worker, especially to Mexico.
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The condition of being a migrant.
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A migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird.
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Human smuggling, people smuggling.
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A person with temporary permission to work in another country; a guest worker.
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The state, condition, or quality of being a migrant.
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Alternative form of migrator [Any creature that migrates.]
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An instance of moving to live in another place for a while.
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The theory that movements of people from one region to another can account for changes in the culture of the destination region.
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The condition of being migratory
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(of birds, etc) Migrating.
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(ornithology, zoology) Anxious behaviour in migratory animals, especially in birds, experienced at the beginning of the normal migration period; zugunruhe.
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(historical) A passport issued to a stateless refugee in the years after World War I.
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A person who migrates to another country or region.
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To migrate permanently in order to settle somewhere else
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A permanent migration in order to settle elsewhere
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One who settles at a distance from others.
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An ancient migration (human or animal)
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A person who engages in people smuggling.
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(countable, chiefly theology, archaic) A person's life regarded as a temporary stay on earth and a journey to the afterlife.
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Relating to peregrination, to travelling or wandering.
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A visa status which allows a person to reside indefinitely in a foreign country without acquiring citizenship in that country
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A person with permanent residency, a visa status which allows that person to reside indefinitely in a foreign country without acquiring citizenship in that country.
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The protection, by a sovereign state, of a person who is persecuted in their own country for their political opinions or activity
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(UK) Of a European citizen: having resided in the United Kingdom for less than a certain time period and thus not yet regarded as being settled there.
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(humorous) A residency visa that does not permit the bearer to find employment, especially as the spouse of someone with a work visa.
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(biology) Promoting migration.
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Possible mass arrival of new immigrants to a country as a result of flexibility in immigration policies.
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The lure of another home, country, region, organization, or religion.
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A factor that encourages one to leave one's current home, region, country, organization, or religion.
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(historical) An immigrant, generally from the 18th or 19th century, who gained passage to America by selling themselves as an indentured servant.
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A person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in their home country, i.e., a person seeking political asylum.
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(Australia, Darwin, colloquial, slang, offensive) An influx of illegal immigrants or refugees attempting to enter the country by sea; an influx of boat people.
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The state of being a refugee.
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The state of being a refugee.
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The status of a refugee.
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(US, informal) A Jewish refugee.
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(Soviet Union, slang, historical) One of the citizens of the former Soviet Union, typically but not exclusively Jewish, who were refused permission to emigrate.
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(transitive) To give a new house to; to relocate someone to a new house.
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immigration back to the place from which one came
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someone who has been relocated (moved to a new home)
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The act of moving from one place to another.
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(zoology) An insect that migrates back to a previous host.
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Migration back to the place from which one came.
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(chiefly US, historical) One who advocates the removal of native populations from their land.
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(transitive) to force someone to settle in a different place
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the transportation of a group of people to a new settlement
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The right to legally reside in a country.
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(US, law) A person born outside the United States who has legally established temporary or permanent residence in the United States, but has not become a United States citizen.
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(transitive) To assign (military personnel) to a different area.
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Someone who comes back or returns, especially to their own country or region.
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The return of people who emigrated from a country during the process of brain drain.
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(law) The right of a person persecuted by his or her own country to be protected by another sovereign authority.
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(law) The right of a person who has traveled out of their country of citizenship to cross the border upon return to that country.
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In the United States and Canada, a city that allows undocumented immigrants to live and work without being arrested and deported by local authorities.
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(uncountable) A movement of people from cities to rural coastal areas.
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Of or pertaining to someone whose parents are immigrants
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Voluntary emigration by members of an unwanted or illegal population, often as a result of policies that make staying in their country of residence difficult.
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A kind of visa under which a migrant worker, typically a foreign domestic worker, cannot legally leave their job and find employment elsewhere.
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The seasonal movement of people, with their cattle or other grazing animals, to new pastures which may be quite distant.
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someone in transit through a country on the way to a final destination
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A importer who transports goods overland from the United States to Central America via Mexico.
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Departure from one's homeland to live in another country; migration.
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The resettlement of a group of people.
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(uncountable) A movement of people from cities to the countryside.
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(US, slang) A migrant worker who comes into an area to find a job harvesting marijuana.
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An immigrant who has entered a country (often as a migrant worker) and has no documentation authorizing them to (still) be present there.
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(euphemistic) Illegal immigrant, illegal alien.
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not requiring a visa when entering a country
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(ecology) An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.
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A legal authorization which allows a person to take employment in a country other than that in which he/she holds citizenship.
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An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another, especially a political exile.
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