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emigration

[em-i-gray-shuhn] / ˌɛm ɪˈgreɪ ʃən /


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Years of economic crisis, underinvestment and political turmoil have hollowed out once thriving communities, with many homes left empty thanks to mass emigration.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

With emigration from East Asia, Europe and Latin America set to decline, Africa will be America’s main source of labor—especially once South Asia’s population begins to shrink by the second half of the 21st century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Kilbane added: "To a county decimated with emigration for centuries but always having a love for home. This one is for its people."

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Its leaders rejected emigration to Palestine and, after the pogroms and massacres that accompanied Russia’s collapse, went into exile or were crushed by the Soviets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Applying his “worldwide rate of dental microevolution” to the three migrations, Turner came up with roughly similar dates of emigration.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

John James Audubon was among the reputable witnesses of what are more properly called emigrations, not migrations.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2023

It was considered enough to express the tragedy of emigrations, of displaced people and their long march.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2013

It was 1840, three years after the first baptisms, when the emigrations began.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2012

When deaths and emigrations were totaled and deducted, the group mysteriously gained 170,000 in population.

From Time Magazine Archive

They form the principal population of this terrestrial paradise; they are for the most part emigrations from the Sahara, several centuries ago, and speak the true Arabic language.

From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by James Grey Jackson


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