Poor migrants feeling sore (8)

I believe the answer is:

smarting

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'feeling sore' is the definition.
'smarting' can be an answer for 'sore' (thesaurus). I'm not certain of the 'feeling' bit.

'poor migrants' is the wordplay.
'poor' is an anagram indicator.
'migrants' with letters rearranged gives 'SMARTING'.

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(Other definitions for smarting that I've seen before include "feeling the pain" , "suffering from sting" , "Painful" .)

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