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What does it mean to be an immigrant or emigrant and what are some common factors that lead people to migrate?

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A immigrant is a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence.

A emigrant is a person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another.

Migrants might be defined by foreign birth, by foreign citizenship, or by their movement into a new country to stay temporarily (sometimes for as little as one month) or to settle for the long-term.

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