A small number of free settlers also immigrated thereafter.
Almost half of the population in 2001 (45.1%) was foreign-born, and of these, 49.0% had immigrated to the area between 1991 and 2001.
Many the female immigrants worked of in service, domestic, or low-paid, white-collar workers who immigrated to earn money to, in return, send home.
These communities were originally composed of only of men who immigrated for work.
Not all who are ruled by a particular government have immigrated to that jurisdiction, however; some were born there.
Naturally they go there in order to be with other people of the same kind as themselves who have immigrated previously, or with their descendants.
But in 1949, for example, 145,000 people emigrated from this country and only 60,000 immigrated into this country.
Performance was negatively correlated with age of arrival for those who immigrated before adulthood (r = -.63) and then leveled off to barely above chance.