out-migration

Examples

• All

• Hundreds of people were without jobs, and an out-migration of workers began to the oil patches in Northern Alberta.

  Academic text (2013)

• "After 1948, Palestinian high fertility and the limited economic potential of the land led to out-migration.

  Academic text (2013)

• Negative factors were not the only influences that brought about out-migration.

  Academic text (1994)

• Although this new urban lifestyle seems to have slowed out-migration, it has also eroded the region's rural identity.

  Academic text (1996)

• In Maryland, the older suburban counties of Montgomery and Baltimore had net out-migration to neighboring counties during the 1980s.

  Academic text (2012)

• At least four of Archibald McMillan's thirteen adult children were part of the same out-migration from Thomas County, Georgia.

  Academic text (2011)

• By the 19th century, emigrant remittances were crucial to local survival, and out-migration has since continued to be a common survival strategy.

  Academic text (2008)

• The adverse effects of decades of skyrocketing land prices have fueled economic stress on families and increased out-migration among Native Hawaiians.

  Academic text (2009)

• Ruiz and his predecessors in office have voiced dismay about Oaxaca's massive out-migration, meanwhile quietly defunding government social programs.

  Academic text (2008)

• Over the past decade, out-migration has significantly reduced the population of the small town as families seek better opportunities elsewhere.

Synonyms

E

emigration

vsout-migration

13 4.5

Leaving a country to live abroad permanently

refers to leaving an area, not only the country, to settle elsewhere

O

outmigration

vsout-migration

• Specialized

1 7.2

A movement of people leaving a place to live somewhere else

is the same meaning but written with a hyphen in standard use

E

expatriation

vsout-migration

1 8.2

Leaving your home country to live in another

specifies settlement elsewhere, implying permanent move rather than temporary residence

Antonyms

I

in-migration

• Specialized

1 6.3

Movement of people into a place to live there for a long time

How Many

exodus

45 7.2

out-migration

• Specialized

1 7.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology