rural-urban migration
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migration
noun[C or U]
uk/maɪˈɡreɪ.ʃən/us/maɪˈɡreɪ.ʃən/
the process of animals travelling to a different place, usually when the ...
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(Definition ofmigrationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Another consequence of economic growth isrural-urbanmigration.
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Moreover, the higher price of the urban good leads torural-urbanmigration, thereby raising the urban unemployment ratio.
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Population increase, economic growth and industrialization, increasing urban employment opportunities,rural-urbanmigrationand advances in transportation and technology are the main constituents of this process.
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The structural transformation also placed a burden on the non-agricultural sectors because of the excessiverural-urbanmigration, well in excess of labour needs.
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Migration studies up until this time had focused onrural-urbanmigrationor rural-rural migration other than to the forested parts of the uplands.
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Among the effects that can conceivably reduce forest pressure are urban poverty alleviation and possible resultingrural-urbanmigration(see below).
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Syrians are increasingly becoming urban dwellers, but the pattern ofrural-urbanmigrationis quite di^erent from that of other countries in the region.
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In societies recently transformed byrural-urbanmigration, hopes, desires, and fantasies are resolutely urbane; there is little scope for ruraloriented romanticism.
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Therural-urbanmigrationimpelled farmers to devise new relations of production to confront the devastating currents of change created by the oil boom.
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There is also a negative allocation effect in the urban-rural partition, suggesting that the pattern ofrural-urbanmigrationin this period was inequality-reducing.
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Keeping in view the impact of an increasing population on the urban environment, it was recognized thatrural-urbanmigrationwas not necessarily desirable.
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The concern withrural-urbanmigrationhas become all the more acute since urban infrastructure is overextended, and can no longer absorb the new migrants and their families.
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The long term aim is to also reducerural-urbanmigration.
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They neglected rapidly spreading slums due to increasedrural-urbanmigrationcaused by urbanization.
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Scholars claim politics also drivesrural-urbanmigrationand subsequent settlement patterns.
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Thus, purely because ofrural-urbanmigration, one would expect any processes operating to overcome the effects of geographical isolation to decline in relevance in explaining the overall levels of churchgoing.
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The proposal to encourage people to move back there will help maintain a demographic balance and reduce the negative selection process that stems fromrural-urbanmigration.
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Therural-urbanmigrationpulled labour away from the countryside where the important export products were made.
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This contributed to highrural-urbanmigrationto the city, and consequently a high population growth rate.
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Lastly, natural disasters can often be single-point events that lead to temporarily massiverural-urbanmigrationflows.
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Without proper management and actions taken, the continuous influx orrural-urbanmigrationmay pose as a serious threat to the infrastructure in the urban cities.
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Pre-industrial societies did not experience largerural-urbanmigrationflows primarily due to the inability of cities to support large populations.
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