Definition of Out-migration

1. Noun. Migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another).

Exact synonyms: Emigration, Expatriation
Generic synonyms: Migration
Derivative terms: Emigrate, Expatriate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Out-migration

out-and-outer
out-basket
out-dwell
out-flank
out-flanked
out-flanking
out-flanks
out-general
out-generaled
out-gun
out-gunned
out-gunning
out-guns
out-herod
out-migration (current term)
out-of-band
out-of-battery
out-of-body
out-of-body experience
out-of-body experiences
out-of-bounds
out-of-bounds(p)
out-of-context
out-of-court
out-of-court settlement
out-of-date
out-of-door
out-of-doors
out-of-order

Literary usage of Out-migration

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Migration and the Labour Market in Asia: Recent Trends and Policies by Nihon Rōdō Kyōkai (2003)
"Several studies have identified the factors that promote the out-migration of highly skilled manpower from the Philippines ..."

2. Gender, Land and Livelihoods in East Africa: Through Farmers' Eyes by Ritu Verma (2001)
"This need for income generation, forced male out-migration in search of waged ... The extensive out-migration of adult men had a significant impact on ..."

3. Post Apartheid Patterns of Internal Migration in South Africa by Pieter Kok (2003)
"Graph 4.4: District-based out-migration and unemployment rates 0 .25 .5 Unemployment rate | 0 = Mainly rural, 1 = Mainly urban | The census results also ..."

4. Projections of Education Statistics to 2006 by William J. Hussar (1997)
"... and international out-migration—was projected separately for each birth ... in-migration during the period DOM = domestic out-migration during the ..."

5. Projections of Education Statistics to 2007 by Debra E. Gerald (1997)
"... and international out-migration—was projected separately for each birth ... in-migration during the period DOM = domestic out-migration during the ..."

6. Projections of Education Statistics to 2008 by Debra E. Gerald (1999)
"... and international out-migration—was projected separately for each birth ... in-migration during the period DOM = domestic out-migration during the ..."

7. Population Profile of the U.S., 1997 by Andrea Curry, Karen Mills, Janice Valdisera (2000)
"States with persistently high rates of net out-migration to other states were California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Rhode lsland. ..."

8. The City and the World: New York's Global Future by Margaret E. Crahan, Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush (1997)
"The postwar years have also seen a substantial out- migration from the city. ... The entry of immigrants directly offsets losses through out-migration. ..."

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