in-migrant (was: Through hell and half of Georgia)

[Mark A. Mandel]

Scripsit James Landau:

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Aside to Bererly Flanigan:  "in-migrants"?
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I don't remember seeing Ber///Bev's use of it, but I've seen it for many
years referring to population movements between regions within a
country, e.g., "The Black population of the Northern cities was swollen
by a flood of in-migrants from the South". I assumed, and still suppose,
that it was used instead of "immigrant" because the latter is used for
people coming from abroad, not moving within the national boundaries.

Ditto of course "in-migration", which I think I've actually seen more
often than "in-migrant". And ISTM much less of "out-migrant/tion".

-- Mark A. Mandel