All 5 Uses

immigrate
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The Joy Luck Club
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But when she arrived in the new country, the immigration officials pulled her swan away from her, leaving the woman fluttering her arms and with only one swan feather for a memory.†
Chpt 1

immigration = the act of coming to live in a new country; or indication that something is related to that act
My father said the picture was taken when Ma was first released from Angel Island Immigration Station.†
Chpt 8
Somehow, in the end, they declared her a Displaced Person, lost in a sea of immigration categories.†
Chpt 8
My father proudly named her in her immigration papers: Betty St. Clair, crossing out her given name of Gu Ying-ying.†
Chpt 8
the fact that his parents immigrated from Tarrytown, New York, not Tientsin, China.
Chpt 9 *

immigrated = came to live from

Definitions:

(1) (immigrate)
come to live in a new country
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, immigrate can mean that anything (such as an animal or plant) migrates into a new environment.