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migration

[mahy-grey-shuhn] / maɪˈgreɪ ʃən /


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Migration figures for 2025, released Thursday by the Office for National Statistics, showed the lowest net immigration since Covid, at 171,000.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Migration added 171,000 people to the UK's population last year, almost half the number seen in 2024, according to new Home Office data.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Even so, Muzaffar Chishti of the Migration Policy Institute said that the executive branch has vast discretion in immigration law, particularly when invoking national security justifications, and defense attorneys may face an uphill battle.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Migration typically unfolded slowly over generations and blended into everyday life, making it difficult to detect in standard burial grounds.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026

In The Warmth of Other Suns, the journalist Isabel Wilkerson ensured that the story of the Great Migration would be underreported no longer.12 Calling it “great” is no exaggeration.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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