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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Migration into one community, region, or country from another.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun migration into a place.

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  • noun migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)

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Examples

  • A lot of places that lost are places that are experiencing simultaneous out-migration, lack of in-migration and aging. ...

    Most major U.S. cities show population declines 2011

  • The state [as a whole], and Houston and San Antonio [in particular] are deriving significant income from domestic in-migration.

    America's Most Affordable Cities Francesca Levy 2010

  • Right up until the early 19th century most cities maintained their populations only by in-migration; urban death rates (mainly from disease) were so high the cities would have dwindled to ghost towns without rural immigrants. jack lecou Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Missing the Trees 2009

  • The big winners in terms of growth were in the South, with Texas, Florida and North Carolina as the leading in-migration states.

    Notable & Quotable 2011

  • One obvious feature from the maps is the “donut” phenomenon, the prevalence of large central county net out-migration, surrounded by a ring of substantial suburban and exurban net in-migration (about two-thirds of which is from the central core counties).

    Matthew Yglesias » Command and Control 2009

  • Mr. Perry says Haley Barbour told him they'd need turnstiles on the border if that tort bill passed, and indeed the in-migration of doctors to Texas is significant.

    Rick Perry: Ready for Prime Time? Daniel Henninger 2011

  • Mr. Perry says Haley Barbour told him they'd need turnstiles on the border if that tort bill passed, and indeed the in-migration of doctors to Texas is significant.

    Rick Perry: Ready for Prime Time? Daniel Henninger 2011

  • The state [as a whole], and Houston and San Antonio [in particular] are deriving significant income from domestic in-migration.

    America's Most Affordable Cities Francesca Levy 2010

  • The micro-wars, the wars of the rockets, are intended to discourage in-migration to Israel by the Russians and other former East Bloc Jews, and to foster out-migration by Israeli Jews, which the Israeli leadership and Zionism generally view as a dire threat to the character of the Israeli state.

    Matthew Yglesias » Gaza and Just War 2009

  • Instead we have been seeing black in-migration in the South in recent years.

    The Great Lone Star Migration Michael Barone 2011

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  • Finally, cities were particularly unhealthy, with death rates there exceeding birth rates by a large margin – without in-migration, European cities before 1850 would have disappeared.

    Economist's View

    July 30, 2009