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The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose of permanent residence.

The immigration of Jews from Russia was mainly responsible for the ineffective yet oppressive Aliens Act of 1905.

Does illegal immigration take jobs from citizens?

Immigration then ceased, and was not resumed until 1874.

In Aeginopsis a planula is formed by multipolar immigration.

The immigration from countries other than Portugal during the first half of that century was small, but before its close it increased rapidly, particularly from Italy.

The introduction of European immigrants dates from 1818 when a Swiss colony was located at Nova Friburgo, near Rio de Janeiro, and it was continued under the direction and with the aid of the imperial government down to the creation of the republic. Since then the state governments have assumed charge of immigration, and some of them are spending large sums in the acquisition of labourers.

Take a step back in time by visiting the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.

It was formerly thought to be only an autumnal or wintervisitor to Britain, but later experience has proved that, though there may very likely be an immigration in the fall of the year, it breeds in nearly all the English counties to Yorkshire, and abundantly in those nearest to London.

Upon his death (454) the wild immigration which he had arrested revived.

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet has an extensive list of online databases arranged by category, such as immigration, land and marriage records.

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

Such attempts to put a precise money value on immigration are futile.

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On his return from exile, after the subsidence of the Tatar deluge, he found his kingdom in ashes; and his two great remedies, wholesale immigration and castle-building, only sowed the seeds of fresh disasters.

Kollonich, who had been created a cardinal in 1685, archbishop of Kalocsa in 1691 and archbishop of Esztergom (Gran) and primate of Hungary in 1695, was now at the head of affairs, and his plan was to germanize Hungary as speedily as possible by promoting a wholesale immigration into the recovered provinces, all of which were in a terrible state of dilapidation.'

On the one hand, there was a conservatism which is exemplified when the Jews in course of immigration took with them the characteristic dress of their former adopted home, or when they remained unmoved by the changes of the Renaissance.

Immigration is almost entirely from other southern states.

In 1879 California voted against further immigration of Chinese by 154,638 to 883.

During 1860, 1861 and 1862 there was a continuous stream of immigration.

Immigration abstracts help when tracking an immigrant ancestor.

He proposed to remedy this state of things by the sale of land in small quantities at a sufficient price, and the employment of the proceeds as a fund for promoting immigration.

The German immigration, of which so much has been written for political ends, has been greatly over-estimated; trustworthy estimates in 1906 made the German contingent in the population vary from 350,000 to 500,000.

Thereby the cities are becoming less dependent upon immigration for increase of population than formerly, but the migration still goes on.

Since 1880 the proportion of illiteracy has steadily declined for all classes, save the foreignborn between 1880 and 1890, owing to the beginning in these years, on a large scale, of immigration from southern Europe.

So also the immigration of French Canadians and of Irish explains the fact that in every state of one-time Puritan New England the Roman Catholics were a majority over Protestants and all other churches.

The Greeks, whose immigration from Asia Minor took place in pre-historic times, are, next to the Albanians, the oldest race in the Peninsula.

Mexico sought to prevent American immigration, but the local authorities would not enforce such orders, however positive.

There can thus be no doubt that the population is increasing with extraordinary rapidity, although there is hardly any immigration.

The return of birthplace which usually forms part of the census inquiry, affords supplementary information on the subject of immigration.

But a far more potent factor in swelling the numbers of the Catholics has been the immigration of the Irish, which began early in the 19th century, but was enormously stimulated by the famine of 1846.

There were, moreover, dangerous differences on such questions as Asiatic immigration, the status of, natives, mining, agriculture, &c. Thus the antagonism between the various states on economic lines was at the end of 1906 greater than any racial divisions.

Between the Naushirwanis of the Kharan desert and Mashkel, and the fish-eating population of the coast, enclosed in the narrow valleys of the Rakshan and Kej tributaries, or about the sources of the Hingol, are tribes innumerable, remnants of races which may be recognized in the works of Herodotus, or may be traced in the records of recent immigration.

Sancho also endeavoured to foster immigration and agriculture, by granting estates to the military orders and municipalities on condition that the occupiers should cultivate or colonize their lands.

The entrances to the inner lagoons of the Limfjord are naturally blocked against the immigration of flatfish by dense growths of sea-grass (Zostera), although the outer lagoons are annually invaded by large numbers of small plaice from the North Sea.

There has been no direct immigration from Europe, though Europeans of various nationalities have found their way into the country and settled there as miners or traders.

The percentage of whites therefore does not increase as in Argentina and Brazil, and cannot until means are found to promote European immigration.

From political rather than racial causes Ottakar favoured the immigration of Germans into his dominions.

The increase of Orthodox communities has been very marked since 1888 owing to the immigration of Austrian Slavonians.

By far the largest part of the increase is due to excess of births over deaths, for out of the increase of over 1,000,000 since 1860, only 350,000 was due to immigration.

In the case of (2) the actual population has always been exceeded by the estimate based on natural increase, and this demonstrates an excess of emigration over immigration.

The large English immigration is to be ascribed to the successful proselytizing efforts of the Mormons in England.

The same influence may be traced in the other immigration figures.

Board of Assistant Aldermen of New York City; he was a member of the state senate in 1850-1853 and procured the passage of the bill providing for the establishment of Central Park in New York City; in 1855-1858 he was state commissioner of immigration; from 1859 to 1863 he was governor of New York, being the first Republican executive of the state; in 1863-1869 he was United States senator from New York.

The revocation of the edict of Nantes, and consequent French immigration, gave further impetus to the industry.

There has been also an immigration of Chinese and, in larger numbers, of Indians (mainly from the Malabar coast).

The German immigration began about 1845, and long ago passed its maximum, so that in 1900 more than half of all the foreign-born (not only the Germans, but also the later-coming nationalities) had lived within Missouri for more than twenty years, and more than three-fourths of all had been residents of the state for ten 1 Omitting here printing and publishing, and foundry and machineshop products, which (like carpentering, bakery products, &c., in cities) have little distinctive in them to set Missouri off from other states.

The civil law seems to have had only a tacit, and as soon as American immigration began a limited, application.

Meanwhile, after the peace of 1815 a great immigration had set in, many settlers coming from the free states north of the Ohio.

The United States government has at Port Townsend a customshouse, a revenue cutter service, a marine hospital, a quarantine station and an immigration bureau.

What the vegetative increase has been since then (for there has been no immigration) is purely conjectural, as there are no available returns of births and deaths upon which an estimate can be based.