Libya Emigration and Immigration

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Libya 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.

Immigration into Libya

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Emigration From Libya

KNOMAD Statistics: [2]

Records of Libya 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.

References

  1. "Libya", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya, accessed August 2021.
  2. "Libya", at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, ,accessed August 2021