emigrants
Those who relocate
Emigrants are people who leave their home country to settle elsewhere.
The word emphasizes departure rather than arrival—the same person is an emigrant from one country and an immigrant to another.
The emigrants boarded ships bound for America.
Many emigrants never saw their homeland again.
Journey by sea
- departureAct of going away
- crossingPoint where paths intersect
- passageSegment of text
- shipSeagoing transport vessel
steerage · port · embarkation · farewell · leaving · transit · arrival · customs
1620 colonial transport vessel
- PilgrimsPlymouth's founding English colonists
- HuguenotsFrench Reformed Christians
- gold-rushStampede for precious ore
- steerageShip's cheapest quarters
manifest · quotas · pogroms · Windrush · partition · Kindertransport
Banishment from homeland
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- expulsionForced permanent removal
- uprootingExtracting from the earth
dispossessed · statelessness · banishment · persecution · fleeing · escape · war · famine
One's native land
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- communityCollective of connected people
- remittancesPayments sent abroad
enclave · assimilation · nostalgia · motherland · repatriation · transnationalism · generational · roots
Those who establish homes
- colonistsSettlers in new territory
- homesteadersLand-claiming rural settlers
- pioneersFirst to explore territory
- frontiersmenSettlers of unsettled land
landowners · establishing · communities · integration · naturalization · citizenship · visa · documentation
voyage
Journey by sea
ship · steerage · port · embarkation · farewell · leaving · transit · arrival · customs · border
Mayflower
1620 colonial transport vessel
- PilgrimsPlymouth's founding English colonists
- HuguenotsFrench Reformed Christians
- gold-rushStampede for precious ore
steerage · manifest · quotas · pogroms · Windrush · partition · Kindertransport
exile
Banishment from homeland
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- expulsionForced permanent removal
uprooting · dispossessed · statelessness · banishment · persecution · fleeing · escape · war · famine · resettlement
homeland
One's native land
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- communityCollective of connected people
remittances · enclave · assimilation · nostalgia · motherland · repatriation · transnationalism · generational · roots · belonging
settlers
Those who establish homes
- colonistsSettlers in new territory
- homesteadersLand-claiming rural settlers
- pioneersFirst to explore territory
frontiersmen · landowners · establishing · communities · integration · naturalization · citizenship · visa · documentation · adaptation
- migrantsarctic tern, monarch butterfly, caribou, humpback whale, gray whale
- diasporaAfrican diaspora, exiles, Irish diaspora, Jewish diaspora, Vietnamese Americans
- Greek DiasporaGreek communities, Pontic Greeks, ethnic enclaves, expatriates, family reunification
- Westward ExpansionOregon Trail, Lewis and Clark, covered wagons, pioneers, frontier
- peoplesAmericans, British, Chinese, French, Germans
- residentsresident, residents, inhabitants, inhabitant, local
emigrantsimmigrants
Those settling abroad
arrivals · newcomers · incomers · settlers · new arrivals
emigrantsnatives
Original local population
residents · locals · homebodies · indigenous people · stayers
- emigrant shipVessel transporting those leaving home