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  • noun Plural form of migration.

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Examples

  • What generally happens in such migrations is that initially, the immigrants simply fit into the existing political structure.

    Matthew Yglesias » Pining For White Supremacy 2010

  • In general terms, the word Afghan comes into use through Persian texts beginning roughly one thousand years ago, circa 1000 CE, in geographical treatises and Ghaznavid historiography. 12 The Ghaznavids set into motion a millennium of migrations from the Hindu Kush mountains to the Hindustan plains that were motivated by commercial opportunities and state-building activities entailed in Islamization processes.

    Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

  • The history of women in earlier migrations from the British Isles to what is today Canada has, until recently, remained largely unexplored terrain; in much of the literature, these women have remained part of an amorphous entity, white settler society, with little recognition of the gendered dynamics of their experiences or the ways in which dimensions of race, ethnicity, and class also affected their lives. 19

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • The history of women in earlier migrations from the British Isles to Canada has, until recently, remained largely unexplored terrain; in much of the literature, these women have remained part of an amorphous entity, white settler society, with little recognition of the gendered dynamics of their experiences or the ways in which dimensions of race, ethnicity, and class also affected their lives.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • A political era driven by environmental stress, increased cultural sensitivity, unregulated urbanization, and refugee migrations is an era divinely created for the spread and intensification of

    The Coming Anarchy 1994

  • A political era driven by environmental stress, increased cultural sensitivity, unregulated urbanization, and refugee migrations is an era divinely created for the spread and intensification of

    The Coming Anarchy 1994

  • If we can find a difference, it lies solely in the fact that emigration from Great Britain was larger in volume than the previous migrations from the older colonial powers to their outlying possessions.

    The Future of the Empire 1957

  • That these "migrations" -- if such can be our acceptance -- have occurred at

    The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

  • Oil is ending, and because of this, food is falling apart all over the world, causing massive migrations, which is why we can't stop people coming across our borders.

    WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME AGAIN Maggie Jochild 2007

  • And here is no inconsiderable exemplification of my assertion that the migrations were the cause of there being no correspondent growth in other parts.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

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