Noun
- the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country: a barrier to control illegal immigration from Mexico
- the place at an airport or country’s border where government officials check the documents of people entering that country: the airport has long queues at immigration and baggage reclaim
OxfordDictionary.com http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/immigration?q=immigration Accessed 16/04/2012
- the movement of non-native people into a country in order to settle there
- the part of a port, airport, etc. where government employees examine the passports, visas, etc. of foreign nationals entering the country
- migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)
- the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval; “the increased immigration strengthened the colony”
The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/immigration Accessed 16/04/2012
Used in a sentence:
“Replacement Migration: Is It a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?
United Nations projections indicate that over the next 50 years, the populations of virtually all countries of Europe as well as Japan will face population decline and population ageing. The new challenges of declining and ageing populations will require comprehensive reassessments of many established policies and programmes, including those relating to international migration.
Focusing on these two striking and critical population trends, the report considers replacement migration for eight low-fertility countries (France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, United Kingdom and United States) and two regions (Europe and the European Union). Replacement migration refers to the international migration that a country would need to offset population decline and population ageing resulting from low fertility and mortality rates.”
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs: Population Division. “Replacing Migration: Is it a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?” http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/migration/migration.htm Accessed 28/04/2012
BBC Short History of Immigration http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2002/race/short_history_of_immigration.stm
Bertozzi, Andrea. 2002. “Italy’s Recent Change From An Emigration Country to An Immigration Country and Its Impact on Italy’s Refugee and Migration Policy”. Cicero Foundation. http://www.cicerofoundation.org/lectures/bertozzi_nov02.html
International Organisation for Migration http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/lang/en/pid/1
OxfordDictionary.com http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/immigration?q=immigration Accessed 16/04/2012
Spartacus Educational, USA: History Immigration, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAimmigration.htm.
The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/immigration Accessed 16/04/2012
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs: Population Division. “Replacing Migration: Is it a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?” http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/migration/migration.htm Accessed 28/04/2012
Other Related Terms: immigrant; emigration; push pull factors