Synonyms:
emigration, out-migration, expatriation
Meaning: migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)
Usage examples
She will be an Ireland without emigration, a place for famines.
TO CHECK THE CONTINUAL EMIGRATION OF LABORERS FROM THE COUNTRY INTO THE CITIES.
At that time there was a considerable emigration setting through the State from Kentucky and Tennessee to Missouri.
At this moment, therefore, arises the necessity for such an emigration as may relieve the country of its population, may permit all the miserable people dying of hunger to provide for their own wants in a new country, and by that means may increase the influence and prosperity of the mother country.
They did not belong to the classes from which emigration is usually supplied, for they all had a stake in the country they left behind." Though it would be interesting to know how accurate this statement is or how applicable to the other colonies, no study has as yet been made to gratify that interest.