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in-migration

in-migration

1 6.3
Movement of people into a place to live there for a long time
  • noun
  • /ɪnˈmaɪɡreɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : inmigración
  • The city experienced significant in-migration as families sought better job opportunities and living conditions.
  • increased in-migration
  • net in-migration
  • rapid in-migration

This is a very small town and it's a town with virtually no in migration.

Examples

  • As a result of in-migration and high birthrate, the core had a growth rate of 318 percent during the 1950s.

    Academic text (1992)

  • Again, the geographical result may be a less concentrated pattern of in-migration, at the very least.

    Academic text (1990)

  • So we're seeing an in migration to our local area here for that reason that people can still buy.

  • But in migration history, especially in the study of acculturation, this is not yet fully reflected.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Population growth from in-migration is combined with an ongoing exodus from the central city.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Given the in-migration of families with young children into the state, these assumptions are unrealistic.

    Academic text (1990)

  • With the construction of the Transamazon Highway and other roads in the early 1970s, in-migration mounted dramatically.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Rapid growth and massive in-migration led to the erection of temporary housing and squatter settlements.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Earls Colne experienced massive in-migration for its rural textile industry.

    Academic text (1995)

  • In the decades before 1970, especially since 1940, border cities grew chiefly as a result of in-migration, almost universally so regardless of settlement size.

    Academic text (1996)

Synonyms

immigration
vsin-migration
627 3.0

People moving to another country to live there permanently

is broader, applying to movement into regions or areas not only countries
moving in
vsin-migration
82 2.7

The time when you begin to live in a new home

is movement into a larger area or country to live permanently
resettlement
vsin-migration
16 3.9

Moving people to a new place to live after they are forced to leave their homes

is general movement into an area to live without implying forced reason
relocation
vsin-migration
12 4.0

Moving people from their homes to a new place because they must leave

is about individual or general inflow into an area to live permanently

Antonyms

out-migration
  • Specialized
1 7.1

People leaving an area to live in another place

Surface Forms

in-migration singular
in-migrations plural

Morphology

in-migration = migration (transparent) = in + migrate + ion

Adding directional 'in-' to 'migration' straightforwardly gives the meaning of migration into a place.

Etymology

In-migration combines in- meaning 'into' and migration, from a root meaning 'to move', the same root you see in migrate and migrant. So in-migration simply means people 'moving into' a place to live.