FOREIGNsomeone who enters another country to live there permanently 〔外来〕移民 → emigrant
an illegal immigrant
非法移民
a new wave of immigrants from the Middle East
来自中东的一股新兴的移民浪潮
nCOLLOCATIONS
adjectives
an illegal immigrant
Large numbers of illegal immigrants have found their way into the country.
a legal immigrant
Two thirds of legal immigrants to the country came from Europe and Canada.
a recent immigrant
The majority of workers at the factory are recent immigrants.
European/African etc immigrants
There has been a recent increase in the number of African immigrants.
a first-generation immigrant (=someone who is an immigrant, or whose parents were immigrants)
Her parents were first-generation immigrants from Poland.
a second-generation immigrant (=someone whose parents or grandparents were immigrants)
These boys are second-generation immigrants who grew up speaking English.
phrases
a wave/influx of immigrants (=a large number of them)
A new wave of immigrants arrived in the 1950s.
a flood of immigrants (=a very large number of immigrants that arrive at the same time)
He suggested the country would experience a flood of immigrants.
immigrant + NOUN
an immigrant family
A quarter of the school’s students are from immigrant families.
immigrant workers
Many immigrant workers had to live in deprived areas.
an immigrant community
There are shops catering for the various immigrant communities.
the immigrant population
The immigrant population increased rapidly during the 1970s.
Examples from the Corpus
immigrant• Jae Min's parents are immigrants from South Korea.• There is also some evidence that black immigrants are more entrepreneurial than native-born blacks.• From people worried about the country being marginally swamped by immigrants, no doubt.• Santa Clara was a mesh of Italian, Mexican and Germanimmigrants in the 1800s.• With illegalimmigrants, the decision will be easy.• The winery was started by an Italian immigrant to California.• The bill would have cut off government aid even to legalimmigrants.• Between 1820 and 1920 some 35 million immigrants reached the United States.• The new immigrants come mainly from Asia and Latin America.• This is a nation of immigrants.• Mr Stoiber has been in the forefront of those calling for tighterrestrictions on asylum-seekers and ordinaryimmigrants.• Once on the job, strong immigrantnetworksmean that other immigrantstend to be hired when new openingsemerge.• It was these immigrants who did so much for the pioneer areas and young industries.