different between immigration vs emigration

English

Etymology

From immigrate +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m????e??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??m????e???n/
• Hyphenation: im?mi?gra?tion
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

immigration (countable and uncountable, plural immigrations)

1. The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose of permanent residence.

Derived terms

• antiimmigration, anti-immigration
• proimmigration, pro-immigration

Related terms

• immigrate
• inmigration, in-migration
• emigration
• emigrate
• migration
• migrate
• outmigration, out-migration

Translations

Further reading

• immigration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imi?rasjo?n/, [imi??????o??n] or IPA^(key): /emi?rasjo?n/, [emi??????o??n]

Noun

immigration c (singular definite immigrationen, plural indefinite immigrationer)

1. immigration

Inflection

Synonyms

• indvandring

Related terms

• emigrant
• emigration
• emigrere
• immigrant
• immigrere

Further reading

• immigration on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Pronunciation

Noun

immigration f (plural immigrations)

1. immigration

Further reading

• “immigration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Noun

immigration c

1. immigration

Declension

English

Etymology

From Late Latin stem of emigratio

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

emigration (countable and uncountable, plural emigrations)

1. The act of emigrating; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence.
2. A body of emigrants; emigrants collectively

   the Irish emigration

Related terms

• migration
• migrate
• migratory
• emigrate
• émigré, emigre
• immigrate
• immigration
• inmigration, in-migration
• outmigration, out-migration

Translations

See also

• emigration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Noun

emigration

1. emigration

Synonyms

• udvandring

Swedish

Noun

emigration c

1. emigration

Declension