Definition of outmigrant in English:
outmigrant
nounˈaʊtmʌɪɡrəntˈoutˌmīɡrənt
A person who has migrated from one place to another, especially within a country.
Example sentencesExamples
- Migration ‘efficiency,’ the ratio of net to gross migration, was extremely low, only around 5 percent - something often not apparent from the data until the underenumeration of outmigrants was corrected after the next census.
- In the face of these challenges, villagers mobilized all the weapons in their arsenal in order both to ‘extort’ money from outmigrants and to control and, if necessary, to discipline them.
- Most outmigrants are unmarried youths or adult couples with young children who intend to stay away permanently.