Word Finder - emigration

definition

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.

definition

A body of emigrants; emigrants collectively

example

the Irish emigration

The marquis fled abroad with his second son Louis at the time of the emigration of the nobles.

The Mobile Militia will not, however, at that date have felt the effects of the scheme, and the Territonial Militia (setting the drain of emigration against the increased population) will probably remain at about the same figure as in 1901.

In 1844 the Swiss government began to encourage emigration to the United States.

Owing to emigration, the population appears to be steadily diminishing, and is now only about 6000, or less than half what it was in 1857.

But this was followed, during the next fourteen years, by the wholesale emigration of thousands upon thousands of Circassians, who sought an asylum in Turkish territory, leaving their native region almost uninhabited and desolate, a condition from which it has not recovered even at the present day.

From the Transylvanian counties there is an emigration to Rumania and the Balkan territories of 4000 or 5000 persons yearly.

On the 12th 1 The Mussulman population, 88,000 in 1895, had sunk to 40,00e in 1907, and the emigration was still continuing.

Germany lost during these thirteen years more than 1,700,000 inhabitants by emigration.

Emigration is a comparatively new phenomenon in Sardinia, which began only in 1896, but is gaining ground.

The horrors of war and of religious persecution, and the consequent emigration or expulsion of its inhabitants, had wrecked the prosperity of Ghent, the recovery of which was made impossible by the closing of the Scheldt.

The statistics of these show that there was during the thirty-two years, 1856-88, an excess of emigration over immigration of 1,146,052 in the case of Russians, and a surplus of immigration of 2,304,717 foreigners.

The Greek constitution admits no religious disabilities, but anti-Semitic riots in Corfu and Zante in 1891 caused much distress and emigration.

The ravages of the war from 1821 to 1830, and the emigration that followed, caused a great diminution, and the population was estimated by Pashley in 1836 at only about 130,000.

Webster has observed ants, foreseeing this emigration, to carry aphids from apple trees to .grasses.

In 1847 he wrote his biographies of Simon, Lord Lovat, and of Duncan Forbes, and in 1849 prepared for Chambers's Series manuals of political and social economy and of emigration.

Louis, marquis de La Rochejacquelein, the younger brother of Henri, accompanied his father in the emigration, served in the army of Conde, and entered the service of England in America.

Nevertheless, emigration continued even on a larger scale than in 1406, and the real history of Pisa may be said to have ended.

There is consequently much emigration, the Christian surplus going mainly to Egypt, and to America, the Druses to the latter country and to the Hauran.

This movement is characterized firstly by its magnitude; secondly, by the fact that the emigrant changes his political allegiance, for by far the greater part of modern emigration is to independent countries, and even where it is to colonies the colonies are largely self-governing and self-regarding; and thirdly, it is a movement of individuals seeking their own good, without state direction or aid.

This is 20th-century emigration, differing from all preceding forms and having an importance of its own.

The greater part of this emigration has been to the United States of North America.

The history of emigration is well shown in the following table of emigration from Great Britain and Ireland.

In 1846 came the Irish potato famine, and an enormous emigration began, followed by a very large German emigration from similar causes.

The main figures have already been given in the table of emigration.

This is offset by a very heavy emigration, which sometimes exceeds the immigration in certain of the states.

Balance of Emigration and Immigration.-Even in the case of emigration from Europe to countries beyond the seas there is some return movement.

Thus, for Great Britain and Ireland, while the emigration of persons of British and Irish origin was, in 1905, 262,077, the immigration of persons of the same category was 122,712, leaving a net emigration of only 139,365.

Temporary Emigration.-In many European countries there is not only emigration beyond seas, but a very considerable movement to neighbouring countries in search of work, and generally with the intention of returning.

From 1851 to 1901 the total emigration from Ireland was 3,881,246 or 72.5% of the average population.

But hitherto the countries of strongest emigration (England, Germany, &c.) have shown practically undiminished birth and marriage-rates and a steady growth in population.

The intensity of emigration is measured not by the absolute number of emigrants, but by the number of emigrants to the total population.

Even in particular districts where emigration is heavy the loss is made up by births.

For instance, in 1891 the emigration from the provinces of West Prussia and Posen was extraordinarily heavy10.9 and Io 4 per mille respectively-but the excess of births over deaths was 19.6 per mille.

Emigration may give temporary relief to congested districts, but it is not in itself a remedy for so-called over-population.

It is maintained that such emigration institutes a process of selection which is unfavourable to the home country.

Emigration is therefore an economic gain, both directly and indirectly.

The same remark would hold true in regard to the social and political effects of emigration.

In case of conquest the conquered nationality takes to emigration on an extensive scale, as after the absorption of Alsace-Lorraine by Germany in 1871.

Of such character have been the state-aided emigration from Ireland, and the assisted emigration of paupers, criminals and other persons in the effort to relieve a congested population, or simply from the desire to get rid of undesirable members of the community.

Effects of Immigration.-The effects of emigration are negative in character; those of immigration are positive.

At the end of the rule of the knights (1798) the population was estimated at roo,000; sickness, famine and emigration during the blockade of the French in Valletta probably reduced the inhabitants to 80,000.

On his return he was contemplating emigration to New England, when in June 1773 Lord North, on the recommendation of Lord Barrington, appointed him a member of the newly constituted supreme council of Bengal at a salary of io,000 per annum.

The emigration movement proved a failure, and Las Casas lived long enough to express his shame for having been so slow to see that Africans were as much entitled to freedom as were the natives of the New World.

From time to time the emigration takes the shape of a mass movement, which the government stops by forcible measures.

The great event they dwell on is the bursting of the dam of Ma'rib, which led to the emigration northwards of the Yemenite tribes.

The statistical work includes compiling abstracts, memoranda, tables and charts relating to the trade and industrial conditions of the United Kingdom, the colonies and foreign countries, the supervision of the trade accounts, the preparation of monthly and annual accounts of shipping and navigation, statistics as to labour, cotton, emigration and foreign and colonial customs, tariffs and regulations.

The county is among those least seriously affected by emigration.

Posen, one of the oldest towns in Poland and the residence of some of the early Polish princes, including Boleslaus I., provincial colonization " and to prevent German emigration.

A fourth endeavoured to bind the peasantry more closely to the soil by forbidding emigration.

The emigration to Massachusetts in 1629, which continued in a stream till 1640, was not composed of separatists but of episcopalians.