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a person (or animal) that moves from one place to another — sometimes seasonally — sometimes for work
- Immigrant is a word coined in America, for migrants who came in, rather than went out, the meaning of emigrant, which was how Europe saw it.five — Hispanic Immigration: Reconquest or Assimilation? (60% in)
- Interestingly, a new dialect has been emerging in North Carolina, where Hispanic migrants have mixed Spanish with Southern rural speech and created, in Walt Wolfram's terms, "an Hispanic Southern variety of English.five — Hispanic Immigration: Reconquest or Assimilation? (37% in)
- It is haunting to look at the photos of these black people, their work-worn bodies in shabby clothing, yet their faces to us expressing a dignity that seems to be absent from the faces of some of the gaunt, half-starved white migrants in the famous photographs of the dust-bowl victims of the same Depression years.six — Bad-mouthing Black English (22% in)
- Many of these migrants are well educated and skilled: 30 percent professionals and managers, 19 percent with college degrees.six — Bad-mouthing Black English (99% in)
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