Associations to the word «Immigration»

Wiktionary

IMMIGRATION, noun. The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.

Dictionary definition

IMMIGRATION, noun. Migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there).
IMMIGRATION, noun. The body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval; "the increased immigration strengthened the colony".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope