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
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
That number of returns is equivalent to about 6% of total emigration from the UK from January 2025 to December 2025.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
And on top of that, there have been high levels of emigration and low immigration.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
They shared a lot of history—Syria, emigration to America and New Orleans, work in the trades.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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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
It was sudden climate change on a similar scale, and it resulted in a severe famine in Europe, food riots and mass emigrations.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The agricultural prosperity which they soon attained, was quickly known in Greece, whence it occasioned fresh and important emigrations.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
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