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migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)Synonyms: in-migrationType of migrationKinds aliyah
the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval“the increased immigration strengthened the colony”Type of body

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Im′mi·gra′tion noun

Origin: Cf. F. immigration.

The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.

The immigrations of the Arabians into Europe.— Thomas Warton

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54