Migrant, Emigrant, Immigrant

One of the greatness of the USA aka America is to accept people from different parts of the world while in Europe many problems in their country where attributed to immigration.

“America was indebted to immigration for here settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.” –James Madison

People always migrate from one place to another within a region (emigrate), within a country or beyond one’s country of origin, and settle elsewhere (seen as immigrants).

Migration is part of the human history.

Immigration and emigration are labels given to migrants from a point of view.

Sweden in the 17th and 18th centuries was a country of emigration (Swedes left their country to other countries but principally to the USA) to escape poverty, religious persecution, for a better life and livelihoods, because of a belief that the country is not going to get better but worse among others but now it is country of immigration, too.

Migrate is a verb meaning someone who moves from one place to another place to live or work or both or for a short duration of time. Like human beings, animals and birds move from one place to another according to the seasons.

Migrants are those people who migrate from one place to another place for one or the other reason. They could be emigrants or immigrants!

Migration is the act of migrating from one place to another.

A huge number of Jews migrated (emigrated) from Europe to the USA during the and after the World War II.

The derivatives of migrate are migrates, migrated, migrating (verbs), migratory (adjective), migrant, migrants and migration (nouns).

Emigrate means moving or migrating from one’s place of birth country to another country for a livelihood.

Every year, few Indians to emigrate from the USA for better prospects and livelihood.

Emigrant is a person who emigrates.

Émigré is a French word. Émigré is a person who leaves his or her country to another country for political reasons.

Emigration is the act of leaving one’s country and settling in another.

Immigrant is a person who has left his or her country and settled in a foreign country permanently either for livelihood or as an asylum seeker or for business. Indian businessmen Lalit Modi and Vijay Mallya are the Indian immigrants in the UK.

Immigration control is the check point at an airport, sea terminal etc where passports and other documents of people wanting to come into a country are checked.

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