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(ii) Temporary. These migrations are usually concerned with the demand and supply of temporary labour in different localities, journeys on business, and pilgrimages such as those associated with religious festivals.

(iii) Seasonal. These are connected in the settled population with seasonal demands for labour, such as occur in the period when oranges are picked. In the nomadic population, they are connected with the tradition of many centuries, and that tradition was no doubt founded on the economic necessities of winter and summer.

(iv) Semi-permanent. These migrations are of those who retain homes in one place but earn their livelihood in another, maintaining connection with their homes where they leave their families and to which they ultimately return. These features characterise the greater part of the Arab emigrant population seeking a livelihood in the American continent. To some extent, they are a feature of a very small Arab population who provide labour in Jewish villages, although migration of this type may, for most purposes, be included in migration of the casual type, seeing that, as a rule, the distance between the place of livelihood and the place of permanent home is small.

(v) Permanent. This type of migration is in the nature of colonization. Within the country, for example, the discovery of a source of wealth and prosperity in the south would be followed by a permanent migration from the central and northern parts of Palestine. In this type is, of course, included immigration of settlers into Palestine from other countries.

The problem of illegal immigration into Palestine is that concerned with permanent settlement in the country, whether by Jew or Arab, contrary to the provisions of the immigration legislation in force from time to time.

JEWISH ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.

53. Jewish illegal immigration is effected by

(i) illegal entry done secretly by evasion of controls;

(ii) illegal entry done openly by ships landing on beaches; (iii) legal entry of travellers who overstay the period of temporary residence authorized; and

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