Sentence examples for experience of emigration from inspiring English sources

Tóibín's tender portrait of one woman's experience of emigration has an understated power.

For the moment, Spaniards remember their own recent experience of emigration; they show no taste for big rows about immigration.

Obinze's experience of emigration has been less successful than Ifemelu's; a brief stint in London sees him working under a false name and paying over the odds for an arranged marriage, only to be arrested on his way to the ceremony and later deported from a country "odorous with fear of asylum seekers".

Armenia has a huge diaspora and has always experienced waves of emigration, but the exodus of recent years has caused real alarm.

Persistently poor places, in turn, naturally experience high levels of emigration, says John Cromartie of the Department of Agriculture, as people leave in search of a better life.

In 1994, Jifna experienced a wave of emigration, with about half of its population leaving the town to pursue better livelihoods elsewhere.

Other research suggests there are some offsetting benefits to workers of all skill levels in countries experiencing emigration; high rates of emigration of skilled workers tend to encourage "human capital formation"—or education and training in the country of origin, for instance.

The postwar immigration of labor to the north is the greatest human uprooting that Europe has experienced since the waves of emigration to America in the late 19th & early 20th centuries.

Compared to the other countries, Portugal experienced extraordinarily high levels of emigration between 1964 and 1973, mainly due to labour migration to other European countries.

Kathleen Newland, also of MPI, suggests that "based on the experience of countries like Spain, Portugal, Greece and South Korea, emigration usually slows when income per person approaches a threshold level in relation to income in the richer countries where the migrants are heading".

In sum, the experience of Mexico with undesirable emigration in the early phases of her migration history can be seen as one of the reasons why a reform towards dual citizenship was so delayed.