Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere. Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another. A migrant emigrates from their old country, and immigrates to their new country. Thus, both emigration and immigration describe migration, but from different countries' perspectives.
Japanese government poster in the early 20th century promoting emigration to South America, with Brazil highlighted
East Germany erected the Berlin Wall to prevent emigration westward.
Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location. The movement often occurs over long distances and from one country to another, but internal migration is the dominant form of human migration globally.
Venezuelan migrants being processed in Ecuador in 2018
Migrants and the monitoring Slovenian army at the border of Gornja Radgona, Styria, Slovenia, in 2015
Migrants[clarification needed] on a truck between Niamey and Kouré in Niger (2007)
Dorothea Lange, Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside, Blythe, California, 1936