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From:Journal of Social History (Vol. 42, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article focuses on settlement house work and social reform as efforts to reconcile concerns about the survival of the unfit with the desire for reform and charity. Self-described progressives regarded themselves as...
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From:International Journal of Population ResearchPeer-ReviewedThis paper examined the effects of rural-urban migration on the rural communities of Southeastern Nigeria. Data were obtained using mixed methods approach comprising questionnaire surveys and key informant interviews....
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground The population of Ghana is increasingly becoming urbanized with about 70% of the estimated 27 million people living in urban and peri-urban areas. Nonetheless, eight out of the ten regions in Ghana remain...
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From:Ahfad Journal (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis paper explores the dynamics of internal population displacement in Sudan. It discerns the changing patterns of displacement during the post-independence period and reveals the characteristics that they shared with...
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From:The Geographical Review (Vol. 104, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe world today is an urban world. While rural to urban migration has contributed significantly to the increased urbanization of the globe, that process has not always been as clear and permanent as it appears. In this...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 51, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Upon the publication of her much-acclaimed second collection of stories, Where the Harmonium Once Stood , Shin Kyung-sook was instantly anointed by critics and readers alike as the fresh new voice of the...
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From:Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSome years ago, while sitting with my aunt drinking coffee, I asked her why she left her Wisconsin farm for the city of Milwaukee. What was there to do, she asked in return. Meet a boy down at the bridge? What did she...
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From:Journal of Current Chinese Affairs (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedChina's dramatic economic development and urbanisation have led to an increase in its number of internal migrants. As of 2013, this group accounted for more than 20 per cent of the country's population, and approximately...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 95, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedXiao Hai (b. 1980) came from Shangqiu City in Henan Province, the philosopher Zhuangzi's hometown. He has drifted in different cities as a migrant worker for many years and composed over five hundred poems. He was a...
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From:Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe rapid growth of urbanization in developing countries, especially Iran, is the result of natural increase in population and migration from villages and small towns to big cities. This rapid growth had caused many...
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From:International Migration Review (Vol. 27, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedData from eight recent Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in sub-Saharan Africa are used to assess whether fertility, child mortality and other individual-level characteristics motivate or constrain long-term female...
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From:Journal of American Ethnic History (Vol. 17, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe movement of African Americans to Portland, OR, between 1900 and 1924 was characterized by continual and distinct patterns. The rural-urban migration resulted in the emergence of a family-based community in the city....
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From:Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAfrican Americans had a particularly difficult existence in the rural South during the early twentieth century. For those who wanted to own land, houses, and other property; who desired participation in the political...
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From:French Politics, Culture and Society (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article explores the role of the state as a vector of political acculturation in the French and Euro-Mediterranean countryside in the nineteenth century. It begins with a consideration of the importance of the...
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From:Journal of Asian and African Studies (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDepartment of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria Journal of Asian and African Studies Vol. 32 (1997) pp. 81-92 In many African countries, high rates of migration...
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From:The Review of Black Political Economy (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the determinants, consequences and policy intervention measures of the movement of labor within Ghana's administrative regions. The study concludes that the economic inequalities brought about by...
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From:Southeastern Geographer (Vol. 58, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSince the mid-1970s, the UnitedStates (US) South has been a net destination for African American migrants. We analyzed data from 1976 to 2015 to highlight major characteristics of migrants to the US South at the Public...
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From:Atlantic Economic Journal (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHousehold migration from rural to urban areas in Kenya is a choice between split migration and family migration. A study based on the 1986 Urban Labor Force Survey reveals that split migration, which accounts for about...
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From:The Contemporary Pacific (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAs Papua New Guinea's well-publicized "law and order" problem continues unabated, calls are often made for the destruction of squatter settlements and the dispersal of their inhabitants as a solution to urban crime....
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From:Comparative Economic Studies (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA better understanding of the development of part-time farming in China would be invaluable both for academic inquiry and policy formulation. This study, using farm-level survey data, examines the development of...