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The act of betting your whole life on a border you've never crossed.
means The act of moving permanently into a country that is not your own, in order to live and settle there.
from From Latin immigrare, 'to move into,' built from in- ('into') and migrare ('to move, to change one's dwelling') — the same migrare that gives us migrate, migration, and the seasonal flights of birds. So at root, immigration simply means moving inward, into a place: the prefix marks the direction, the destination chosen rather than the homeland left. English borrowed the word in the 17th century, and from the start it carried that one-way charge — not just movement, but arrival to stay.
- genetic legacy
- Every human descends from migrants out of Africa
- economic engine
- Immigrants found 55% of US billion-dollar startups
- brain drain
- Doctors leave home faster than countries can train them
- first arrivals
- Ellis Island processed 12 million people in decades
- language shift
- Most immigrant families lose their tongue by grandkids
ellis island — processed over 12 million immigrants arriving in new york between 1892-1954
us-mexico border — approximately 2.76 million apprehensions of undocumented immigrants in 2023
lampedusa italy — italian island receiving over 100,000 migrants annually from north africa and middle east