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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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Built by nearby Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church as an outreach to the workers, the altar served migrants who lived in ramshackle huts in McGonigle Canyon. During the period between 1930 and 1970 more than 17,000 migrants moved to Louisville in ever increasing numbers hoping to find a better life or at least better jobs. We review facts concerning outbreaks of H5N1; the species of birds, especially migrants, known to have been infected by this subtype; and available information on the ability of migrants to serve as reservoir or introductory hosts that move the virus from outbreak areas to new localities. |
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