emigration
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Her loss was especially troubling, Cappello explains, because it "underscored the ongoing risks these birds face," and because emigration is a difficult aspect of population dynamics to measure.
From Science Daily
Built around the songs of Kurt Weill, their program tracks his musical life from the caustic Bertolt Brecht shows of 1920s Berlin through his Nazi-forced emigration to France and then to America.
In Turkey, the number of Christians has declined to a historic low, while in Lebanon, where the pope arrived Sunday for a three-day trip, emigration is reducing a larger population.
ONS figures for immigration and emigration are update twice per year.
From BBC
Like most of the countries where Christianity first took hold, wars and economic lethargy — not to mention a relatively easier path to emigration — have dwindled Lebanon’s Christian population over the decades.
From Los Angeles Times
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