emigration

noun

em·​i·​gra·​tion ˌe-mə-ˈgrā-shən 

plural emigrations

: an act or instance of emigrating : departure from a place of abode, natural home, or country for life or residence elsewhere

Further Chinese emigration to Taiwan was to be carefully limited.

—Jonathan D. Spence

Examples of emigration in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

After giant pro-democracy protests in 2019, an ongoing crackdown on speech and dissent has dismantled civil society groups and set off a wave of emigration. —Tiffany May, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2024

But with the advent of steamships, by the 1880s intensive emigration had spread from every corner of the globe. —TIME, 18 Mar. 2024

Yet his cruel exploitation of others’ vulnerability masks his own dreams of emigration with his adoring, cherubic young son. —Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 Feb. 2024

Lebanon has been a country of emigration for centuries. —Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2024

But decades of emigration have shrunk the population to 137 full-time residents, and in 2023, San Giovanni Lipioni became the town with the oldest average population in Italy, a country with one of the oldest average populations in the world. —Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024

Over the following three decades, immigration restrictions in the United States became more expansive, while in Europe several states, including Ottoman-Turkey, Romania, and Russia, expelled or violently propelled the emigration of ‘unwanted’ populations. —TIME, 18 Mar. 2024

Although Russia has a larger overall population, its military-recruitment challenges are compounded by labor shortages and the emigration of hundreds of thousands of men since 2022. —Dara Massicot, Foreign Affairs, 8 Mar. 2024

There was an artistic movement toward what people would call inner emigration. —Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1614, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

emigration

noun

em·​i·​gra·​tion ˌem-ə-ˈgrā-shən 

: diapedesis