Uganda Emigration and Immigration

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Uganda Emigration and Immigration

"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.

Finding the Town of Origin in Uganda

If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Uganda, see Uganda Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies.

Immigration into Uganda

Emigration From Uganda

Uganda Diaspora refers to about 1.5 million Ugandans (according to the UN Human Development Report of 2009) who left Uganda from the early 1970s—during the dictatorship reign of Idi Amin (to escape persecution and death)--to the current time "in search for better social and economic opportunities."[34] KNOMAD Statistics: <ref>"Uganda", at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development

Records of Uganda Emigrants in Their Destination Nations

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 immigration records for major destination countries below.

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