migrant

IPA: mˈaɪgrʌnt

A migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird.
Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.
(informal) A person who leaves one place in order to permanently settle in another.
Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called an emigrant.

Examples of "migrant" in Sentences

A girlfriend of one of the men took issue with the label "migrant workers," saying it dehumanized them.
Actually, they weren't tenant farmers; some were tenant farmers, but most were what we called migrant farmers, migrant workers.
We have times when the judges are not believing what the migrant is saying, but at least we are changing their perception, said Chahda.
They discuss Mildred's Lane, a collaborative project with Mark Dion, the revolutionary politics of garments, and reclaiming the term migrant worker.
“It was safer to introduce my boyfriend to my parents as the man who wants to marry me, rather than as the man I am living with,” said Chauhan, a migrant from the mountainous northern town of Simla.
A Mexican congressional report predicts 500 of what it calls migrant workers will die this year, saying those illegal aliens are being forced to take riskier routes to avoid detection by the Border Patrol.
He had such a difficult time breaking into the field of medicine, even in Los Angeles where things were better, but things were still closed because being a migrant from the South meant youre not immediately accepted by the people who were there already.