male migrant
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmaleandmigrant
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male
adjective
uk/meɪl/us/meɪl/
belonging or relating to the sex that fertilizes eggs, and does not produce babies or ...
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migrant
noun[C]
uk/ˈmaɪ.ɡrənt/us/ˈmaɪ.ɡrənt/
a person that travels to a different country or place, often in order to ...
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(Definition ofmaleandmigrantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmale migrant
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Some women, especially those who receive remittances from amalemigrantor are for whatever reason ' better off ', never make themselves available.
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The same lifecourse factor can be applicable tomalemigrantworkers in the post-war period.
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The substitution of expensive agricultural inputs for amalemigranthead's labour was ineffective.
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By contrast with the unhappy singlemalemigranthomesick to an extraordinary degree, they lived in a society that had a larger number of friends, relatives and women.
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Originally built to housemalemigrantworkers, many have been improved as dwellings for couples and families.
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With the increasing flow of adult male migrants, women were recruited into departments with low wages.
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During earlier famines, rural households had relied heavily on remittances of male migrants working in distant places.
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A few worked as farmhands, but most of the old male migrants were workers or artisans.
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Like male migrants, therefore, the ' undesirables ' were great travellers.
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Labour-short households of any wealth and standing, and notably those with absent male migrants, could gain access to additional labour seasonally.
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This policy helped to transform the immigrant population from single male migrants to families who wanted permanent settlement.
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Predominantly adult male migrants who were separated from their wives for long periods dominated the mill towns.
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One-quarter of the women can be found in the two oldest age groups, but all of the male migrants except one were younger than 70.
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Few among the single male migrants could find a wife in the local society.
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The sample thus concurs with the picture described in the introduction of an urban economy in which many young people seek employment, in particular young male migrants and so-called schoolleavers.
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It was argued that it were the 'single women' and some male migrants in 'entanglements with local women' who settled most readily in the mill towns.
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The highest suspect rates per capita are found among first (4.9) and second generation (7.1) male migrants from a nonwestern background.
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