What's the difference........

[MWB]

Between immigration & emigration?

[lazy daisy]

Immigration is when someone comes to live in a country. eg. A German person comes to live in England.
Emigrate is when a person goes to live in another country. If you were to leave England to go and live in lets say Australia you would emigrate there.
Hope this helps

[Quizmonster]

As LD suggests above, the process is just one thing and which word is used depends on which way you look at that process...rather like whether a glass is half full or half empty.
If a British person goes to live in Australia, we Brits think of him as an emigrant - an outgoer - and the Australians think of him as an immigrant - an incomer.

[happy_face]

you can remember it by thinking of Import/Export and linking the first letter to Immigrate and Emigrate

[tamborine]

coming and going

[knobs.]

Hi MWB sorry to intrude but just seeing if I am still green.

Far away from the madding crowd of course

[knobs.]

Dammit another 2 days to go then