noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
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In general their requests for asylum are rejected on the grounds that they are simply economic migrants .
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The economic migrant is also the political refugee.
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I have no problem with economic migrants .
illegal
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The ship was carrying illegal migrants , not unaccompanied children, he said.
■ NOUN
passage
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Regular winter visitor and passage migrant .
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Probably Honey Buzzards are regular passage migrants there, at least in autumn.
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Rare but possibly regular passage migrant .
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Peregrines last bred successfully in 1957, and are now only winter visitors and passage migrants .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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400 migrants won the right to stay in the country yesterday, after a ten-year battle.
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Historically, California has welcomed migrants from other states and nations.
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Many of the city's poorest residents are migrants from rural areas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And this economy persists to a substantial degree, courtesy of both the climate and exploitable migrant and illegal-alien labor.
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Perpetual migrants, they have had to find new housing for their center several times.
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Some had barracks and medical centres for migrants.
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The vast majority of these migrants stayed broadly within the science, maths and engineering fields.
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Their rank-and-file soon settled down abroad like most non-ideological migrants transferring their revolutionary energies to the anti-slavery campaign.
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Time to be looking for summer migrants.
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You see, often there is no food left for the local herds after the migrants go through.