emigrant

emigrant, immigrant are comparable but not interchangeable when denoting a person who leaves one country in order to settle in another.

Emigrant (so also emigrate and emigration) is used with reference to the country from which, immigrant (so also immigrate and immigration) with reference to the country into which, migration is made. The former marks the going out from a country; the latter, the entrance into a country

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a large crowd of Italian emigrants boarded the ship at Naples

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Ireland lost heavily through emigration in the middle of the nineteenth century

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our surplus cottage children emigrate to Australia and Canada— H. G. Wells

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Scandinavian immigrants settled large parts of the Middle Western United States

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immigration from Europe into the United States has gradually decreased

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