1 a person who leaves a country permanently to live in another one --
2 someone who leaves their country in order to live permanently in another country: --
As it happened, most emigrants had a home to which they could return.
They therefore could 'get by ' more easily with poor host language skills than emigrants to other countries.
The large number of papers about female emigrants is welcome.
First, as the emigration season wore on, the landlord and his agents became less generous in their spending on the emigrants.
On occasion, these were given the seductive force of the "eye-witness" in collections of letters from emigrant laborers now happily settled in their new homes.
Between 1801 and 1803 the need for military manpower, along with the humanitarian issue of shipping conditions for emigrants, provided this sense of common good.
There are also quotations from international law concerning the status of emigrants.
Emigration and colonisation could purify certain areas, if the emigrants were fast breeders.
