immigration
See also: Immigration
English
Etymology
From immigrate + -ion.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃn/
Audio (UK) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/
- Hyphenation: im‧mi‧gra‧tion
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
immigration (countable and uncountable, plural immigrations)
- The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose of permanent residence.
- 1964, Kennedy, John F., A Nation of Immigrants, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, LCCN 64-7830, OCLC 899031989, page 79:
- Another measure of the inadequacy of the Immigration and Nationality Act has been the huge volume of private immigration bills introduced in Congress. These are bills to deal with individual hardship cases for which the general law fails to provide. In the Eighty-seventh Congress over 3,500 such bills were introduced. Private immigration bills make up about half of our legislation today.
- 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019:
- [Stephen] Miller’s uncle, a neuroscientist, has been welcomed onto the public stage for his denunciations of his nephew’s immigration policies, which the elder Miller has characterized as hypocritical: the Millers’ not-so-distant Jewish ancestors were, of course, immigrants themselves.
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- The process of going through immigration checks at a border checkpoint.
- It took ages to get through immigration last time.
Derived terms
- antiimmigration, anti-immigration
- proimmigration, pro-immigration
Related terms
- immigrate
- inmigration, in-migration
- emigration
- emigrate
- migration
- migrate
- outmigration, out-migration
Descendants
- → Malay: imigresen
Translations
the act of immigrating
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immigration checks at a border checkpoint
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Further reading
- immigration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /imiɡrasjoːn/, [imiɡ̊ʁɑˈɕoːˀn] or IPA(key): /emiɡrasjoːn/, [emiɡ̊ʁɑˈɕoːˀn]
Noun
immigration c (singular definite immigrationen, plural indefinite immigrationer)
- immigration
Inflection
Declension of immigration
common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | immigration | immigrationen | immigrationer | immigrationerne |
genitive | immigrations | immigrationens | immigrationers | immigrationernes |
Synonyms
- indvandring
Related terms
- emigrant
- emigration
- emigrere
- immigrant
- immigrere
Further reading
- immigration on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i.mi.ɡʁa.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file)
Noun
immigration f (plural immigrations)
- immigration
Further reading
- “immigration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
Noun
immigration c
- immigration
Declension
Declension of immigration | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | immigration | immigrationen | immigrationer | immigrationerna |
Genitive | immigrations | immigrationens | immigrationers | immigrationernas |