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  2. Emigration - Wikipedia

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    Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence [1] with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). [2] Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanently move to a country). [3]

  3. Émigré - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the nineteenth century Poland was occupied by the partitioning powers of Poland: Austria, Prussia and Russia.Poles struggled for independence in a series of failed uprisings, which resulted in many having to seek refuge in Western Europe (known as the Wielka Emigracja) in order to avoid reprisals, such as being forcefully sent to the vast and harsh emptiness of Siberia.

  4. Human migration - Wikipedia

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    Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, [1] with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region). The movement often occurs over long distances and from one country to another (external migration), but internal migration (within a single country) is the dominant form of human migration globally.

  5. List of sovereign states by immigrant and emigrant population

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    These are lists of countries by foreign-born population and lists of countries by number native-born persons living in a foreign country (emigrants).. According to the United Nations, in 2019, the United States, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and France had the largest number of immigrants of any country, while Tuvalu, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, and Tokelau had the lowest.

  6. Coolie - Wikipedia

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    The word kūli, meaning "wages", is present throughout the Dravidian language family, with the exception of the North Dravidian branch. [ 10 ] It is also thought that the Hindi word qulī could have originated from the name of a Gujarati aboriginal tribe or caste.

  7. Emigration from the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States is a net immigration country, meaning more people arrive in the U.S. than leave it. There is a scarcity of official records in this domain. [26] Given the high dynamics of the emigration-prone groups, emigration from the United States remains indiscernible from temporary country leave.

  8. Immigration - Wikipedia

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    Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not usual residents or where they do not possess nationality in order to settle as permanent residents.

  9. Migrant worker - Wikipedia

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    Migrant workers in California, 1935. A migrant worker is a person who migrates within a home country or outside it to pursue work. Migrant workers usually do not have an intention to stay permanently in the country or region in which they work.