immigration.

Movement into a country to live there, viewed from the receiving country.

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Words that belong together

• immigration policy
• immigration into a country

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Immigration into the country changed the composition of the labor force over the period.

The immigration policy distinguished several routes rather than treating every arrival identically.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: social explanation, distributional analysis, population description, concept distinction. Disciplines: social science, economics, public policy. Commonness: moderately common.