immigration

See also: Immigration

English

Etymology

From immigrate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃn/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/
• Hyphenation: im‧mi‧gra‧tion
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

immigration (countable and uncountable, plural immigrations)

1. The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose of permanent residence.
   • 1964, John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants‎^[1], Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 79:

     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.

   • 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents‎^[2], number Summer 2019:

     [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.

2. The process of going through immigration checks at a border checkpoint.

   It took ages to get through immigration last time.

Derived terms

• antiimmigration, anti-immigration
• illegal immigration
• proimmigration, pro-immigration

Related terms

• immigrate
• inmigration, in-migration
• emigration
• emigrate
• migration
• migrate
• outmigration, out-migration

Descendants

• → Malay: imigresen

Translations

the act of immigrating

• Afrikaans: immigrasie
• Albanian: mërgim (sq) m, emigrim (sq) m, kurbet (sq) m
• Arabic: هِجْرَة‎ (ar) f (hijra)
• Armenian: ներգաղթ (hy) (nergaġtʿ)
• Azerbaijani: immiqrasiya, mühacirət, hicrət (az)
• Basque: immigrazio
• Belarusian: імігра́цыя f (imihrácyja), перасяле́нне n (pjerasjaljénnje)
• Bengali: অভিবাসন (obhibaśon), হিজরত (bn) (hijrot)
• Bulgarian: имигра́ция f (imigrácija), пресе́лване n (presélvane)
• Burmese: လူဝင်မှုကြီးကြပ်ရေး (my) (luwanghmu.kri:krap-re:)
• Catalan: immigració (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 移民 (ji⁴ man⁴)

  Mandarin: 移民 (zh) (yímín), 遷入／迁入 (zh) (qiānrù)

• Czech: imigrace f, přistěhovalectví n
• Danish: indvandring c
• Dutch: inwijking (nl) f, immigratie (nl) f
• Esperanto: enmigrado
• Estonian: immigratsioon, ränne
• Faroese: tilflutningur m
• Finnish: maahanmuutto (fi), siirtolaisuus (fi)
• French: immigration (fr) f
• Galician: inmigración (gl) f
• Georgian: იმიგრაცია (ka) (imigracia), გადმოსახლება (gadmosaxleba)
• German: Einwanderung (de) f, Immigration (de) f
• Greek: μετανάστευση (el) f (metanástefsi)
• Hebrew: הֲגִירָה‎ (he) f (hagirá)
• Hindi: आप्रवासन m (āpravāsan)
• Hungarian: bevándorlás (hu)
• Icelandic: aðflutningur (is) m
• Ido: enmigro (io), enmigrado (io)
• Indonesian: imigrasi (id)
• Interlingua: immigration
• Irish: inimirce
• Italian: immigrazione (it) f
• Japanese: 移民 (ja) (いみん, imin), イミグレーション (imigurēshon), 入植 (にゅうしょく, nyūshoku), 移住 (ja) (いじゅう, ijū)
• Kazakh: иммиграция (immigrasiä), көші-қон (köşı-qon)
• Khmer: អន្តោប្រវេសន៍ (km) (ʼɑntaoprɑveeh)
• Korean: 이주(移住) (ko) (iju), 이민(移民) (ko) (imin)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: please add this translation if you can

• Kyrgyz: иммиграция (immigratsiya), четтен келүү (çetten kelüü)
• Lao: ເຂົ້າເມືອງ (khao mư̄ang)
• Latvian: imigrācija f
• Lithuanian: imigracija f
• Macedonian: доселување n (doseluvanje), имиграција f (imigracija)
• Malay: imigresen, imigrasi
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цагаачлал (mn) (cagaačlal)

  Mongolian: ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠴᠢᠯᠠᠯ (čaɣačilal)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: innvandring m or f, immigrasjon m

  Nynorsk: innvandring f, immigrasjon m

• Pashto: مهاجرت‎ m (mohāǰerát), هجرت‎ (ps) m (heǰrát)
• Persian: مهاجرت‎ (fa) (mohâjerat), کوچ‎ (fa) (kuč), هجرت‎ (fa) (hejrat)
• Polish: imigracja (pl) f
• Portuguese: imigração (pt) f
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਪ੍ਰਵਾਸ m (prvās)

• Romanian: imigrație (ro) f, imigrare (ro) f
• Russian: иммигра́ция (ru) f (immigrácija), переселе́ние (ru) n (pereselénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: in-imrich f, imrich a-steach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: имигра́ција f, усеље́ње n, досеље́ње n

  Roman: imigrácija (sh) f, useljénje (sh) n, doseljénje n

• Sinhalese: ආගමණය (āgamaṇaya)
• Slovak: prisťahovalectvo n, imigrácia (sk) f
• Slovene: priseljevanje n, imigracija (sl) f
• Spanish: inmigración (es) f
• Swedish: invandring (sv) c, immigration (sv) c
• Tagalog: pandarayuhan, suludbayan
• Tajik: муҳоҷират (tg) (muhojirat), ҳиҷрат (hijrat)
• Thai: การเข้าเมือง (gaan-kâo-mʉʉang), เข้าเมือง (kâo-mʉʉang)
• Turkish: göç etme (tr), göçmenlik (tr), hicret (tr)
• Turkmen: immigrasiýa
• Ukrainian: іммігра́ція f (immihrácija), пересе́лення n (peresélennja)
• Urdu: ہجرت‎ f (hijrat), مہاجرت‎ f (muhājrat)
• Uyghur: كۆچۈش‎ (köchüsh), كۆچمەنلىك‎ (köchmenlik), ھىجرەت‎ (hijret)
• Uzbek: immigratsiya (uz), hijrat (uz) (dated)
• Vietnamese: sự nhập cư (vi)
• Welsh: mewnfudiad (cy) m
• Yiddish: אימיגראַציע‎ f (imigratsye), אײַנוואַנדערונג‎ f (aynvanderung)

immigration checks at a border checkpoint

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 邊防檢查／边防检查 (biānfáng jiǎnchá), 邊檢／边检 (zh) (biānjiǎn)

• Indonesia: imigrasi (id)
• Malay: imigresen
• Punjabi:

  Shahmukhi: ਪ੍ਰਵਾਸ m (prvās)

Further reading

• immigration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imiɡrasjoːn/, [imiɡ̊ʁɑˈɕoːˀn] or IPA^(key): /emiɡrasjoːn/, [emiɡ̊ʁɑˈɕoːˀn]

Noun

immigration c (singular definite immigrationen, plural indefinite immigrationer)

1. immigration

Inflection

Declension of immigration

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	immigration	immigrationen	immigrationer	immigrationerne
genitive	immigrations	immigrationens	immigrationers	immigrationernes

Synonyms

• indvandring

Related terms

• emigrant
• emigration
• emigrere
• immigrant
• immigrere

Further reading

• immigration on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.mi.ɡʁa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

immigration f (plural immigrations)

1. immigration

Further reading

• “immigration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Swedish

Noun

immigration c

1. immigration

   Synonym: invandring

   Antonyms: emigration, utvandring

Declension

Declension of immigration
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	immigration	immigrationen	immigrationer	immigrationerna
Genitive	immigrations	immigrationens	immigrationers	immigrationernas

Related terms

• immigrant
• immigrera

See also

• migration

References

• immigration in Svensk ordbok (SO)