emigration and immigration

lida   Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:17 pm GMT
What is the difference between emigration and immigration?
JJM Again   Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:51 pm GMT
Simply put, the difference is:

emigration - leaving a country to settle in another

immigration - entering a country to settle in it.

During the famine, large numbers of people emigrated from Ireland in order to immigrate to the US.
lida   Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:55 pm GMT
Thank you, it will help. We were given a task to find out the things I asked. That's all.