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Someone who bet everything on a place that didn't ask them first.
means A person who has left one country to settle permanently in another.
from Borrowed from Latin immigrare — 'to move into' — built from in- ('into') plus migrare ('to move, migrate'). English picked it up in the late 1700s, coined specifically to describe people moving INTO a country, as the mirror image of 'emigrant,' someone moving OUT of one. Same root, same journey, just told from the other side of the border.
- etymology
- from latin migrare, simply to move
- legal shift
- same person, different word, once papers clear
- economic irony
- often does jobs natives won't, blamed for taking them
- generational pattern
- grandkids forget the accent, keep the ambition