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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 noun admission of foreigners, change of national location, colonization, entry of aliens, establishment of foreign residence, expatriation, forrign influx, incoming population, ingress, migration, movement of population, transmigration Associated concepts: issuance of visas See also: entrance, entry, inflow IMMIGRATION. 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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