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What does outmigration mean?

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Noun
  1. A migration outwards.
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But these can be expensive and generate resentment among those who stayed home, or even serve as a push factor for further outmigration.
The lack of job opportunities outside the primary sector has resulted in substantial outmigration, long-distance commuting and high unemployment.
Some of the decline in the black population of the city is suburbanization, but the census data could show a net outmigration of blacks from the Chicago area as a whole.
The latest census of the last week or so showed a staggering outmigration from the communities of our province.
The other effect which is very real for Atlantic Canadians and for people from the north, is that it is a forced outmigration program when we do not have an adequate stabilizing unemployment insurance system.
Fortunately, for countries and regions with high levels of outmigration, most citizens do not cut their ties with their country of birth.

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