Moreover, the emigrants' main reason for leaving--a lack of comparable career opportunities at home--remains unresolved.
So, too, have the number of emigrants returning to Hong Kong from the West.
Now, it's common for Mexican officials to acknowledge emigrants' contributions, and to advocate on their behalf.
This supposed tide of young male emigrants has not been picked up by other statistics.
But the surge in short-term arrivals signals a likely increase in emigrants in the future, experts say.
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Of course almost all Irish emigrants (myself included) feel an attachment and fondness for our home country.
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Over two-thirds of non-British emigrants in 2010 had lived in the country for less than five years.
Governments shouldn't view emigrants as entirely lost resources, however, for they can be used to promote economic growth.
There are awareness-raising programmes in schools and at the port and airport, plus a hotline for would-be emigrants.
In Great Britain, where The Economist is published, the number of potential emigrants increased to 33% of the population.
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With rapid growth in their own economies, wages back home rise too, and the supply of emigrants will eventually drop.
Johnson, aided by readers, has recorded in past columns many such English emigrants to other tongues, notably to French, German and Portuguese.
Most women who land in Odessa are, like Katya, poorly educated, and often from villages that subsist on remittances from happier emigrants.
Remittances from the large number of Albanian citizens abroad have dropped, but few emigrants have returned home so far, even from recession-wracked Greece.
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Recent data from the EU's statistical organisation, Eurostat, suggests that in 2009, 3 million people immigrated into the EU, compared with 1.9 million emigrants.
Close to the Bowery on 97 Orchard Street, the Tenement Museum of New York recreates the lives of emigrants struggling with urban squalor.
Pentagon officials stressed there was no plan to take Haitian emigrants to the nearby U.S. naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or any other third location.
Some 40-50 years after emigrants from its north African colonies stepped off the boat in Marseille, there is no hyphenated term for their French-born children or grandchildren.
When U.S. law required that someone take responsibility for new Cuban emigrants and guarantee that they would not end up on welfare, Jorge decided the CANF itself would do so.
Irena Wiley, wife of the sympathetic Vienna-based Consul General John Wiley, sent away for Chicago and New York phone books so that prospective emigrants could track down relatives, real or imagined.
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But while in the 1960s most emigrants went to France, today they are more likely to head for Switzerland - where Portuguese now constitute the largest foreign community - or Angola.
The emigrants' technical and business skills, commercial relationships, and financial capital can all be harnessed to make long-distance economic contributions through foreign direct investment, venture funding, financial investments, and commercial and educational exchanges.
Jagdish Bhagwati, an economics professor at Columbia University, wants developing countries everywhere to extend their powers to tax their expatriates, in order to reclaim some of the value created abroad by highly skilled emigrants.
Although emerging markets have generally offered a hodgepodge of regulatory and fiscal incentives to lure emigrants back home, these efforts have largely failed--no surprise, since most emigrants quickly become acculturated to their new countries and create personal and professional ties there.
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