immigration

Noun
  1. Migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) (synset 100057131)
    is a type of: migration - the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
    subtypes: aliyah - (Judaism) immigration of Jews to Israel
    same as: in-migration
  2. The body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval (synset 108430791)
    "the increased immigration strengthened the colony"
    is a type of: body - a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity

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