'immigration waves' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a large influx of people moving from one country to another over a certain period of time. For example, "The 19th century saw a number of immigration waves to the United States from Europe".
Unlike those earlier immigration waves, the current one includes a large number of illegal immigrants, which creates its own political dynamic.
Boehner's ancestors had come to Ohio in one of the German immigration waves of the nineteenth century.
The different immigration waves had different identities: refugees from the Soviet Union; emigres after the fall of communism; more recently, children of oligarchs.
Around 2001, he and two of his sons were all in the United States working — part of what is now recognized as one of the largest immigration waves in American history.
While those in the former, including the outer city banlieues, have flourished under globalisation, those "new working classes in la France périphérique" including "native French...and those from old immigration waves" are pushed out and "forgotten", he argues.
But the core population that has been its ballast for a half-century is being eroded by forces as powerful as real estate values and immigration waves: a deviously complicated disease, poverty and simple human frailty.
Tree species diversity changed during the immigration wave of each immigrating species, particularly that of the dominant species Picea abies.
In the last large immigration wave, in the late 19th century, immigrants took several generations to assimilate into American society through education.
In addition to its size, another unique aspect of this immigration wave is that many of the immigrants were highly educated.
The great immigration wave of the 1990's -- when 13.2 million immigrants flooded the United States -- has resulted in a tsunami of foreigners yearning to learn English.
At the peak of the immigration wave in 1990 and 1991, over 330 thousand FSU Jews immigrated to Israel, increasing Israel's potential labor force by 8percentt and its population by 15percentt.
