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This was the first idea the designer Abhi Swaminathan had for Venba, which traces the challenges of an Indian family that has immigrated to Canada in the 1980s.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2023

This debut novel features a Jamaican family that has immigrated to England as part of the midcentury Windrush generation, and their descendant Jesse, a gay man exiled from his Jehovah’s Witness community.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2021

Hainzl was a longtime neighborhood resident and has immigrated to the United States to escape Nazi persecution in Austria, according to KNTV.

From Fox News • May 27, 2020

Arthur Goldman, a Jewish survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, has immigrated to New York, where he has become a real estate millionaire.

From Time Magazine Archive

What has taken place in each individual case, whether the species has immigrated after it had lost the metamorphosis, or lost the metamorphosis after its immigration, will not always be easy to decide.

From Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Muller, Fritz