net emigration

Examples of emigration

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Simultaneously, their emigration risks increased because younger siblings tended to drive away older siblings.
Given a positive growth rate, emigration remains a possible explanation of a decreasing population.
Second, the governments of the emigration destination countries can and should do more to improve the quality of life of migrants and their retired parents.
Some of the female emigration was accounted for by women joining their husbands.
Immigration and emigration was assumed to be negligible (except where indicated).
Sociolinguistic interviews are based on thematic modules focusing on education, work, men's and women's roles, and difficulties associated with emigration and immigration.
The geographical isolation limits educational opportunities, knowledge of opportunities elsewhere, and kinship ties in cities and towns which would help emigration.
Moreover, the island was largely closed to immigration and emigration so that losses could be assigned strictly to mortality.
Since the mid-1990s, however, female emigration has increased, both absolutely and as a share of the total, reflecting a tendency towards long-term, family-reunion emigration.
But whereas supporters of unfettered emigration saw it as a safety valve for population pressure, others saw it a wasted investment by the state.
The implication of these words, it would seem, was that emigration amounted to a kind of political death.
The daughters concerned were born between 1877 and 1901, when the population had stabilized after the emigration of 1852 and the boating disaster of 1863.
Even those who did not ultimately join the emigration societies were attracted by the idea.
This has caused increased emigration of the rural population to towns and cities.
There were fewer millionaires and traders among them and their emigration to these territories was largely regulated by law.
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