anti-immigration

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From anti- +‎ immigration.

Adjective

anti-immigration (comparative more anti-immigration, superlative most anti-immigration)

  1. (politics) Opposing immigration.
    • 2023 December 19, Angelique Chrisafis, “France passes controversial immigration bill amid deep division in Macron’s party”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      Emmanuel Macron’s ruling centrist party was divided and soul-searching on Wednesday after a strict new immigration law was approved by parliament but contained so many hardline measures that the far-right Marine Le Pen claimed it as an “ideological victory” for her own anti-immigration platform.
    • 2024 September 2, Christian Edwards, Claudio Otto, Matties Otto and Nadine Schmidt, “AfD becomes first far-right party to win German state election since 1945”, in CNN‎[2]:
      In another worrying development for Germany’s mainstream, the fledgling Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) – a far-left party that has questioned the country’s support for Ukraine and shares some of the AfD’s anti-immigration streak – came third in both states, despite only being founded earlier this year.

Usage notes

  • anti-immigration is several times more common than antiimmigration in print.[1] GPO manual recommends using a hyphen to avoid doubling a vowel except after short prefixes.[2]

Antonyms

  • pro-immigration

Translations

References

  1. ^ (antiimmigration*6),anti-immigration at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
  2. ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov
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