emigration
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Prices are ticking up, and brokers are getting busier as something stirs Cuba's real estate market, long battered by sanctions, recession and mass emigration.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
In her April 8 speech, Ms. Rodriguez acknowledged the economic collapse that led to the mass emigration of both the Venezuelan professional class and the poor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
Some people say they've resorted to fibbing about illnesses, emigration or even prison sentences so the company will stop trying to keep them signed up.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
Demographers say Cuba is undergoing one of the world’s fastest population declines — a 25% drop in just four years — as birth rates fall and emigration soars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2026
The Nazis struck the final blow to Jewish emigration in 1941 when they forbade Jews between the ages of eighteen and forty-five to emigrate.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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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
Joseph Ponten's seven-volume historical novel will trace the emigrations of German minorities abroad, especially in Russia.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The number of Catholics was greatly increased by numerous emigrations, specially from Ireland and Catholic Germany.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
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