emigration
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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
Oil-rich Venezuela, a country of 28 million that was long among the wealthiest nations in Latin America, has suffered a decade of economic decline and mass emigration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
When they left, they would have become part of the wave of mass emigration that saw more than one million people sail from the island.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
The first line says "a novel about emigration", with subsequent pages full of stuck in post-it notes of writing.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
In those days it was still possible to buy emigration certificates to Palestine.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
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
Even domestic troubles and civil discord may have been instrumental in producing those distant emigrations, which at this distance of time appear to us so mysterious and unaccountable.
From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Friedrich Schlegel
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