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The entrance into a country of foreigners for purposes of permanent residence. The correlative term emigration denotes the act of such persons in leaving their former country. Cross-referencesIMMIGRATION. The removing into one place from another. It differs from emigration, which is the moving from one place into another. Vide Emigration. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Second, teaching migrants to become entrepreneurs can help to incorporate and discipline them in even more insidious ways into that very capitalism that is a driver of contemporary economic migration. Economic migration is still a hard fact of Portuguese life, with successful emigres often marking their return by building a house on a plot of land (the so-called maisons de reve). So are his proposals to open legitimate channels for economic migration, to answer a labour shortage which is presently made up by illegal workers. |
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