AP 24.846 Migration – What is the difference between immigration and emigration?

mi·gra·tion em·i·gra·tion im·mi·gra·tion
 

seasonal movement of animals from one region to another.

“this butterfly’s annual migration across North America”2. movement from one part of something to another.
“there is virtually no cell migration in plants”

the act of leaving one’s own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.

“mass emigration from Ireland to the United States”

the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.

“patterns of immigration from the Indian sub-continent to Britain”


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