immigrate vs. emigrate

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Hakhak

#205646 Mon, 13 Mar 06 04:17 AM

emigrate: leave one 's own country to settle in another .
immigrate: come as a permanent resident to a country than nature country.

sentense: I had emigrated to USA from X since 2000.
I have immigrated to USA for a long time.

Hakhak

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pieanne

#209530 Sat, 25 Mar 06 05:37 PM

I'd say "I emigrated from X to the USA in 2000", and "I immigrated to the USA a long time ago".

pieanne

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I'm glad to help, but I'm not a native! And please excuse my typos...

Clive

#209574 Sat, 25 Mar 06 07:39 PM

Hi Pieanne,

I'd say "I emigrated from X to the USA in 2000", and "I immigrated to the USA a long time ago".

These certainly sound normal and acceptable. However, as regards #1, since 'emigrate' focusses on 'from' and you are talking about both 'from and to', I'd say that it's 'technically better' in your example to say "I migrated from X to the USA in 2000". However, 'migrate' is not a verb that is used much these days for individual people.

Best wishes, Clive

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Dianacee

#209599 Sat, 25 Mar 06 10:00 PM

The easiest way to understand these terms as well as the current usage of migrate is this:

1. emigrate = go out of a country [so...emigrated from...] or [A huge number of Irish people emigrated {went out of Ireland}during the potato famine.]

2. immigrate = to come into a country [so...immigrated to...] or [After the discovery of America, many people immigrated (went into America} in search of a better life.]

3. migrate = implies a lack of permanent settlement such a seasonal labourers or animals in search of food moving from place to place [The itinerant fruit pickers migrated from Spain to Italy and onward to...] or [The wildebeest migrate every year from their winter foraging to their spring feeding grounds...]

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pieanne

#209710 Sun, 26 Mar 06 11:01 AM

Thank you, Clive.

I just took two examples from Hakhak's lastest post to correct the tenses, and I must say I didn't pay much attention to the words he had used. I should have quoted them, sorry Sad [:(] Here they are:

I had emigrated to USA from X since 2000.
I have immigrated to USA for a long time.

pieanne

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Anonymous

#493453 Thu, 27 Mar 08 06:20 AM

I emigrated

Anonymous

Clive

#493532 Thu, 27 Mar 08 11:28 AM

Hi,

I emigrated.

Yes, but you can also say 'I immigrated'. Smile

Both are correct, with different meanings as discussed above.

Clive

Anonymous

#559787 Thu, 28 Aug 08 06:24 PM

If you are living in the US and you came from Canada, you would have Emigrated from Canada to the Us. Emigrate means to leave one's country of origin to go to another.
E in emigrate could be thought of as Exiting or Exodus, which means to leave. Migrate means to move around from place to place. Conversely, if you are entering into Canada from the US, you are immigrating. The 2 are used interchangeably but in my opinion, you use each from the perspective of where you are leaving from or entering into.

Anonymous

#563986 Tue, 09 Sep 08 04:04 AM

Both sentences are correct. One can immigrate to the U.S. and emigrate from Australia. You should be aware that emigrate consists of only one "m." -Good Luck

Anonymous

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