标题: How do we call ourselves? migrant, emigrant or immigrant? [打印本页] 作者: mianwo 时间: 11-7-2008 14:02 标题: How do we call ourselves? migrant, emigrant or immigrant? Which word is most commonly used?
migrant, emigrant or immigrant?作者: 127 时间: 11-7-2008 15:06
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Migrate, emigrate, immigrate are used of changing one's abode from one country or part of a country to another.
To migrate is to make such a move either once or repeatedly: to migrate from Ireland to the United States.
To emigrate is to leave a country, usually one's own (and take up residence in another): Each year many people emigrate from Europe.
To immigrate is to enter and settle in a country not one's own: There are many inducements to immigrate to South America.
Migrate is applied both to people or to animals that move from one region to another, esp. periodically; the other terms are generally applied to movements of people.