In recent years news media and other sources have avoided the term immigrant and substituted it with migrant. Immigrants and migrants are not the same!
Migration is more commonly associated with animals (animal migration) not humans. Humans rather migrate and settle.
According to Google search: "Migration is the broad, overarching term for any movement of people (or animals) from one location to another, whether across international borders or within a single country.
Immigration is a more specific type of migration that refers exclusively to the act of permanently moving to and settling in a foreign country."
A nice switch in terminology most likely triggered by some ideology!
Are not e.g. gypsies or cross border commuter workers considered to be migrants?
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