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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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Rumbaut is co-author of the study ``Linguistic Life Expectancies: Immigrant Language Retention in Southern California,'' published in the September issue of the journal Population and Development Review. This article demonstrates why research on immigrant language barriers should account for local variations in the way these barriers are experienced by different immigrant groups. Learning Hebrew is a key part of acculturation and integration, which will be slowed down if immigrant languages and the related memory of Diaspora life are allowed to be continued. |
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