migrant

Example Sentences

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In the 2023–24 school year, migrant students accounted for 2.7% of California’s homeless student population — double the national share among homeless students reported the previous year, according to the study.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Governments in Asia have been scrambling to bring migrant workers home.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Remittance flows could also be affected, as weaker economic activity in the Gulf may reduce labor demand and migrant workers’ incomes, the ADB said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Many migrant workers lack documentation needed for subsidised LPG and rely on informal markets, where hoarding has pushed up prices.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

They turn out to be little separate creatures, the colonial posterity of migrant prokaryocytes, probably primitive bacteria that swam into ancestral precursors of our eukaryotic cells and stayed there.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas