Immigration Meaning
/ɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃn/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose of permanent residence.
nounThe process of going through immigration checks at a border checkpoint.
Sentence Examples
The German Chancellor is plagued by immigration problems.
This is the central problem of postwar immigration.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The country's strict ____ policy makes it hard for outsiders to enter legally.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The government is currently reviewing its ____ policies to better manage the number of new arrivals.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English immigrate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English immigration From immigrate + -ion.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The Bohemians had come then, and after them the Poles. People said that old man Durham himself was responsible for these immigrations; he had sworn that he would fix the people of Packingtown so that they would never again call a strike on him, and so he had sent his agents into every city and village in Europe to spread the tale of the chances of work and high wages at the stockyards."
— 1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter VI, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:
"Another measure of the inadequacy of the Immigration and Nationality Act has been the huge volume of private immigration bills introduced in Congress. These are bills to deal with individual hardship cases for which the general law fails to provide. In the Eighty-seventh Congress over 3,500 such bills were introduced. Private immigration bills make up about half of our legislation today."
— 1964, John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 79:
"[Stephen] Miller’s uncle, a neuroscientist, has been welcomed onto the public stage for his denunciations of his nephew’s immigration policies, which the elder Miller has characterized as hypocritical: the Millers’ not-so-distant Jewish ancestors were, of course, immigrants themselves."
— 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The country's strict ____ policy makes it hard for outsiders to enter legally.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The government is currently reviewing its ____ policies to better manage the number of new arrivals.