immigrationとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃn/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/
• ハイフネーション: im‧mi‧gra‧tion
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

immigration (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 immigrations)

1. The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose of permanent residence.
   • 1964, Kennedy, John F., A Nation of Immigrants‎^[1], Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, LCCN 64-7830, OCLC 899031989, page 79:

     Another measure of the inadequacy of the Immigration and Nationality Act has been the huge volume of private immigration bills introduced in Congress. These are bills to deal with individual hardship cases for which the general law fails to provide. In the Eighty-seventh Congress over 3,500 such bills were introduced. Private immigration bills make up about half of our legislation today.

   • 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents‎^[2], number Summer 2019:

     [Stephen] Miller’s uncle, a neuroscientist, has been welcomed onto the public stage for his denunciations of his nephew’s immigration policies, which the elder Miller has characterized as hypocritical: the Millers’ not-so-distant Jewish ancestors were, of course, immigrants themselves.

2. The process of going through immigration checks at a border checkpoint.

   It took ages to get through immigration last time.

派生語

• antiimmigration, anti-immigration
• proimmigration, pro-immigration

関連する語

• immigrate
• inmigration, in-migration
• emigration
• emigrate
• migration
• migrate
• outmigration, out-migration

派生した語

• → Malay: imigresen

Further reading

• immigration on Wikipedia.