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immigration

movement of people into another country or region to which they are not native
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Summary

immigration is an activity[1]. immigration ranks in the top 9% of activity entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,104 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: human migration[3]
  • Commons category: Immigration[4]
  • Opposite of: emigration[5]
  • Unicode character: 🛂[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Immigration[7]
  • Facet of: emigration and immigration[8]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[11], Red Blue Translator[12], Dresdner Hefte[13]
  • Different from: emigration[14], human migration[15], defection[16]
  • Studied by: sociology of immigration[17], anthropology[18], environmental social science[19]
  • Practiced by: Q12364462[20], immigration commissioner[21]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Human rights[22]

Why It Matters

immigration has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] immigration is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  10. [12] ↑ . allsides.com. allsides.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). immigration. Retrieved October 13, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/immigration
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_immigration_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{immigration}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/immigration}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-13}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 102
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'bar', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bs', 'ca', 'ckb', 'cs'
    Isocat id → 5270
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 5270, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7330299|immigration (#7330299)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 8w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Practiced by → Q12364462, immigration commissioner
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Practiced by: Q12364462, разрешение перенаправления / resolving redirect immigrant → Q12364462 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/KrBotResolvingRedirect/Q12547146_Q12"
  3. 8w ago · Lionel Cristiano · 2026-08-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → movement of people into another country or region to which they are not native
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||tr, en */"
  4. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → immigration
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: immigration, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289935977|immigration (#289935977)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  5. 13w ago · Bencemac · 2026-07-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → movement of people into another country or region to which they are not native
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ Determination method or standard: record linkage, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/260984|batch #260984]]"
  6. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0245510-imigrace
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0245510-imigrace, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259492|batch #259492]]"
  7. 22w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-05-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → emigration, human migration, defection
    Practiced by → Q12364462, immigration commissioner
    Instance of → activity
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8 +2
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||yue, nan */ import labels from sitelinks"
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