inwanderer

plural inwanderers · alternative in-wanderer

1. One who wanders in; an immigrant

   Here the first settlements were made by the Mexican inwanderers of a century ago, who huddled round the coast-line missions, which strove for the submission.

   1890, Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, William Nemos, History of California: 1848-1859, page 519

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   Traders were simply one of many different kinds of in-wanderers, with the main difference being that some in-wanderers came and stayed while the traders came and left.

   2011, Andrejs Plakans, A Concise History of the Baltic States