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Leaving is just immigration with better scenery and worse paperwork at home.
means The act of leaving one's own country permanently to live somewhere else — the same move immigration describes, just viewed from the exit rather than the entrance.
from From Latin emigrare, 'to move away from' — e- ('out') plus migrare ('to move, to migrate'). Migrare itself is the root of 'migrate' and 'migration,' so emigration and immigration are literally the same Latin verb wearing different prefixes: e- for 'out of' versus in- for 'into.' The word entered English use in the 1700s as European states grew anxious about tracking people crossing their borders in both directions.
- same event
- every emigrant is also an immigrant somewhere else
- brain drain
- countries lose doctors, gain remittances instead
- word origin
- latin emigrare, to move out of
- biggest driver
- economics beats politics in most migration data