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What is the difference between immigrants and emigrants?

Just checking to see if anyone actually knows this one ....

Update:

Most of you are correct, it is a constant surprise to me how many native speakers of English mix up words like these.

Update 2:

Fiddlemybutcheek: bear with me ... great name, by the way.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    an immigrant is someone who is coming into a country and an emigrant is someone who is leaving their country to live in another country.

  • claude
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Immigrants come into the country while emigrants are leaving it.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Immigrants are coming in; emigrants are going out.

  • 1 decade ago

    i studied about that before ammm but i guess it means that the immigrant is the one who went to the other country or a town and the emigrant is the one who left the his country or town

    Source(s): my science teacher
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    An immgrant is someone coming into the country and an emigrant someone going out of it..i think :)

    x

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Immigrants come IN, emigrants go OUT - if you're not sure, think of imports & exports - same thing.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    What is the difference between Orla C and a Yahoo Answers troll?? NONE Just checking if she actually knows this one...

  • 1 decade ago

    one who come from other country to our country is immigrant,the opposite is emigrants

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    One comes into the country, and the other one leaves the country.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Come on Orla, I thought you were more intelligent than this judging by the witty and incisive answers that you have left to several of my questions.

    I appear to have maybe erred in my judgement

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