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noun ADJ. economic | illegal | rural MIGRANT + NOUN labourer, worker entering the country as migrant workers | population | bird PREP. ~ from migrants from rural areas | ~ into, ~ to Migrants to the city send money home to their relatives. PHRASES a flow/an influx of migrants
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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migrant
migrant + NOUN
a migrant worker
• The strawberries are picked by migrant workers.
migrant labourer
British English , migrant laborer American English
• The centre houses 50 migrant labourers.
migrant labour
British English , migrant labor American English (= work done by migrants )
• Many farms rely on migrant labour.
a migrant population
(= the migrants who live in a particular place )
• The town has a large migrant popluation.
the flow of migrants
(= the movement of people to or from a place )
• the increasing flow of migrants into California
an influx of migrants
(= the arrival of people in a particular place )
• The growth of towns was due to an influx of migrants from the villages.
adjectives
an illegal migrant
• Thousands of illegal migrants were caught trying to cross the sea to England.
an economic migrant
(= someone who goes to another country to find a better job )
• They are economic migrants, escaping terrible poverty in their home country.
a rural migrant
(= someone who moves from a country area to a city )
• Rural migrants end up in the slums of Brasilia.
a new/recent migrant
• Some of the recent migrants have returned to their homes as the fighting finished.
verbs
a migrant comes from/to a place
• A majority of the migrants had come from this region.
attract migrants
(= make migrants want to come to a place )
• The settlement attracted new migrants and it expanded quickly.
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