Solomon Islands Emigration and Immigration

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Solomon Islands Emigration and Immigration[edit | edit source]

"Emigration" means moving out of a country. "Immigration" means moving into a country.
Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups.

Immigration into Solomon Islands[edit | edit source]

  • Britain defined its area of interest in the Solomon Islands archipelago in June 1893, and declared the southern Solomon Islands a British protectorate.
  • The official name of the then-British administration was changed from the British Solomon Islands Protectorate to the Solomon Islands in 1975, and self-government was achieved the following year. Independence was obtained, and the name changed to just "Solomon Islands" (without the definite article), in 1978.[1]

Emigration From Solomon Islands[edit | edit source]

KNOMAD Statistics: Emigrants: 3,000. Top destination countries: Australia, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, the United States, Ukraine, Canada, Switzerland, the Russian Federation, the Marshall Islands, the Netherlands [2]

Records of Emigrants in Their Destination Nations[edit | edit source]

Dark thin font green pin Version 4.png One option is to look for records about the ancestor in the country of destination, the country they immigrated into. See links to Wiki articles about immigration records for major destination countries below. Additional Wiki articles for other destinations can be found at Category:Emigration and Immigration Records.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. "Solomon Islands", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Islands, accessed 9 August 221.
  2. "Solomon Islands", at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, https://www.knomad.org/data/migration/emigration?page=21, accessed 9 August 2021.