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in-migration

in-migration \in-migration\ n. migration into a place.

Syn: immigration.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in-migration

1942, in reference to movement within the same country, from in + migration.

WordNet
in-migration

n. migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) [syn: immigration]