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While south Asians have been emigrating to the US for more than a century, they didn’t start arriving in large numbers until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

From The Guardian • May 9, 2017

Many have been emigrating to Europe in search of job opportunities.

From Washington Times • Dec. 13, 2016

The central concentration of Japanese industry is in Brazil, to which sizable numbers of Japanese farmers have been emigrating since 1908, notably to Sao Paulo.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since the late 1960s, Haitians have been emigrating illegally to the nearby Bahamas, where an estimated 40,000 now live, working as gardeners, servants and day laborers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most of the large landed proprietors have left their estates to take care of themselves; and the peasants, for the last few years, have been emigrating by hundreds to Caraccas, in Venezuela.

From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Brassey, Annie