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Wiktionary:Tea room Oct 4th 2012, 07:32 ‎In-migration and out-migration: ← Older revision Revision as of 07:32, 4 October 2012 Line 1,799: Line 1,799:   :They don't sound kosher to me. Internal migration within a country is just [[migration]]. External migration outside of a country is also just migration. Immigration is coming into a country, emigration is the exodus. [[User:Stephen G. Brown|—Stephen]] <sup>([[User talk:Stephen G. Brown|Talk]])</sup> 05:48, 4 October 2012 (UTC)   :They don't sound kosher to me. Internal migration within a country is just [[migration]]. External migration outside of a country is also just migration. Immigration is coming into a country, emigration is the exodus. [[User:Stephen G. Brown|—Stephen]] <sup>([[User talk:Stephen G. Brown|Talk]])</sup> 05:48, 4 October 2012 (UTC)   ::[[COCA]] has about a hundred hits for ''in-migration'' vs. 17,000 for ''immigration''. Definitions fitting the usage would be "migration into a jurisdiction (as a US state or county) without a formal legal process", "immigration", and "(''figurative'') inflow of something, as capital", probably in that order of frequency. The highly formalized, legalistic nature of much international immigration in developed countries may make a different word seem appropriate for inward migration flows into sub-national regions. The term seems often used in sociological or other scholarly and policy discussions. [[User: DCDuring |DCDuring]] <small >[[User talk: DCDuring|TALK]]</small > 06:08, 4 October 2012 (UTC)   ::[[COCA]] has about a hundred hits for ''in-migration'' vs. 17,000 for ''immigration''. Definitions fitting the usage would be "migration into a jurisdiction (as a US state or county) without a formal legal process", "immigration", and "(''figurative'') inflow of something, as capital", probably in that order of frequency. The highly formalized, legalistic nature of much international immigration in developed countries may make a different word seem appropriate for inward migration flows into sub-national regions. The term seems often used in sociological or other scholarly and policy discussions. [[User: DCDuring |DCDuring]] <small >[[User talk: DCDuring|TALK]]</small > 06:08, 4 October 2012 (UTC)   +   + ::: See {{term|in-}} (Etymology 1). A relevant definition for {{term|out-}} has not yet been written. --[[User:Wikitiki89|WikiTiki89]] ([[User talk:Wikitiki89|talk]]) 07:32, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

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