emigration

emigración

Abandonar el propio país para establecerse de forma permanente en otro.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: emigration from somewhere to somewhere (Emigration from Ireland to America increased during the crisis.)

Sinónimos: outmigration

Antónimos: immigration

Expresiones frecuentes: emigration from somewhere, mass emigration, emigration to somewhere

comunidad emigrante

Grupo de personas que han dejado su país para vivir en otro lugar.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: emigrants, diaspora

Expresiones frecuentes: the Irish emigration, the political emigration, the Russian emigration