emigration
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A larger Palestinian Christian community lives in the West Bank, although emigration has increased since the start of the war.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
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
As African economies and incomes grow in the coming decades, emigration to the U.S. will increase as more people can afford to move.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
And on top of that, there have been high levels of emigration and low immigration.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 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
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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
When deaths and emigrations were totaled and deducted, the group mysteriously gained 170,000 in population.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They form the principal population of this terrestrial paradise; they are for the most part emigrations from the Sahara, several centuries ago, and speak the true Arabic language.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by James Grey Jackson
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