emigration
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It’s a chance to chill for the people of a nation — once among the richest in Latin America — that has endured more than a decade of economic meltdown, political turmoil and mass emigration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Since his emigration, Durov said he has limited his travel to Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
When they left, they would have become part of the wave of mass emigration that saw more than one million people sail from the island.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
Immigration and emigration estimates from the ONS are updated twice a year.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
It may have been that they were weak people, ill suited for the rigors of emigration, its humiliations and compromises, its competing demands of self-discipline and adventurousness.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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
The Nogais had for their emigrations, like the Kalmucks, circular tents of felt, three or four yards in diameter, and conical at top.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
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