emigration

émigration

Le fait de quitter son pays pour s’installer durablement dans un autre.

En anglais simple : Leaving your own country to live permanently in another country.

• Poverty led to mass emigration.
• Emigration from the island has fallen.
• Her family history includes several generations of emigration to Canada.

Comment l'utiliser : emigration from somewhere to somewhere (Emigration from Ireland to America increased during the crisis.)

Synonymes : outmigration

Contraires : immigration

Expressions courantes : emigration from somewhere, mass emigration, emigration to somewhere

communauté émigrée

Ensemble de personnes qui ont quitté leur pays pour vivre ailleurs.

En anglais simple : A group of people who have left their own country to live elsewhere.

• The Irish emigration supported the campaign.
• The political emigration formed a committee abroad.
• Writers within the Russian emigration kept their language alive.

Synonymes : emigrants, diaspora

Expressions courantes : the Irish emigration, the political emigration, the Russian emigration