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Just a friendly FYI, the opposite of immigration is emigration.

For extra confusion, immigration and emigration are homophones in a Southern accent because of the pin-pen merger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin–pen_merger

Makes me think we should pronounce emigration ee-mah-gration.

You’re just swapping a different set of e/I sounds then.

English pronunciation is a mess.

I've never heard the two sound different in any dialect and I'm not from the south.

Not met many Brits then

Out-migration (with a dash) is fine:

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/outmigration

It seems subtly different (and more correct) to use outmigration, based on what the definitions here suggest. Emigration seems to suggest leaving the country, whereas outmigration seems to suggest leaving for a different part of the same country.

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