immigrant population
collocation in Englishmeaningsofimmigrantandpopulation
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immigrant
noun[C]
uk/ˈɪm.ɪ.ɡrənt/us/ˈɪm.ə.ɡrənt/
a person who has come to a different country in order to live ...
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population
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
all the people living in a particular country, area, ...
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(Definition ofimmigrantandpopulationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofimmigrant population
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In what follows, theimmigrantpopulationhas been treated as a homogeneous group and projected as such.
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After 1859 theimmigrantpopulationaged and slowly died out.
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The results suggest that there is an interaction between comparative estimates of immigration levels and the absolute level of misperception of theimmigrantpopulation.
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To make the matter more complex still, theimmigrantpopulationis almost as large as the so-called indigenous 'majority'.
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In this case, the 1990immigrantpopulationwas used because it fell approximately mid-point between initial and final years of the death data file.
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They made up 20 per cent of theimmigrantpopulationin 1829, but only 11 per cent in 1879.
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We made a reconstruction of theimmigrantpopulationusing census data and population registers.
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This policy helped to transform theimmigrantpopulationfrom single male migrants to families who wanted permanent settlement.
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Their substantive effect was to reduce the estimates, since more educated or politically engaged people are in general less likely to overestimateimmigrantpopulationsize.
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The absence of clarity regarding migration as a risk factor suggests the need for further investigation in a setting with a large and highly variedimmigrantpopulation.
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We used the newly arrived year 2000immigrantpopulationas a hypothetical cohort in a decision analysis model to examine the cost-effectiveness of various interventions to reduce parasitosis among immigrants.
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Yet if a sense of threat underlies opposition to immigration, then beliefs about the size of theimmigrantpopulationare a logical trigger for such feelings of anxiety.
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The birth rates of theimmigrantpopulationare much higher than that of the indigenous population.
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In other words, we have to deal with the problem of theimmigrantpopulationalready here.
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The public health services are under substantial pressure where there is any degree ofimmigrantpopulation.
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Yet we know from the census that in every one of those boroughs nearly half theimmigrantpopulationwas already in this country before 1961.
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Here the urban programme is of special assistance, because it covers those districts of large cities which commonly have a largeimmigrantpopulation.
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We have a responsibility towards theimmigrantpopulationnot to put them as individuals into a situation where integration is made impossible or very difficult.
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