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general::
immigrants
adjectives
an illegal immigrant
• Large numbers of illegal immigrants have found their way into the country.
a legal immigrant
• Two thirds of legal immigrants to the country came from Europe and Canada.
a recent immigrant
• The majority of workers at the factory are recent immigrants.
European/African etc immigrants
• There has been a recent increase in the number of African immigrants.
a first-generation immigrant
(= someone who is an immigrant, or whose parents were immigrants )
• Her parents were first-generation immigrants from Poland.
a second-generation immigrant
(= someone whose parents or grandparents were immigrants )
• These boys are second-generation immigrants who grew up speaking English.
phrases
a wave/influx of immigrants
(= a large number of them )
• A new wave of immigrants arrived in the 1950s.
a flood of immigrants
(= a very large number of immigrants that arrive at the same time )
• He suggested the country would experience a flood of immigrants.
immigrant + NOUN
an immigrant family
• A quarter of the school’s students are from immigrant families.
immigrant workers
• Many immigrant workers had to live in deprived areas.
an immigrant community
• There are shops catering for the various immigrant communities.
the immigrant population
• The immigrant population increased rapidly during the 1970s.
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