rural to urban migration
1rural-urban migration — the movement of people from rural areas to urban areas …
2Urban Appalachians — are people from Appalachia who are living in metropolitan areas outside of the region. Because migration has been occurring for decades, most are not first generation migrants from the region but are long term city dwellers. People have been… …
3migration, sociological studies of — Migration involves the (more or less) permanent movement of individuals or groups across symbolic or political boundaries into new residential areas and communities. Sociological studies of migration are diverse and usually form part of larger… …
4Migration of the disadvantaged — is a phenomenon, where the marginalized populations move out from cities to depopulated suburban or rural areas. When rural urban migration occurs, a young and working population migrates from the rural municipalities to urban areas and the poor… …
5Rural sociology — is a field of sociology associated with the study of social life in non metropolitan areas. It is the scientific study of social arrangements and behaviour amongst people distanced from points of concentrated population or economic activity. Like …
6Urban agriculture — and Peri Urban Agriculture is the practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in, or around (peri urban), a village, town or city. [Bailkey, M. and J. Nasr. 2000. From Brownfields to Greenfields: Producing Food in North American… …
7Urban sociology — is the sociological study of social life and human interaction in metropolitan areas. It is a normative discipline of sociology seeking to study the structures, processes, changes and problems of an urban area and by doing so providing inputs for …
8Migration in the People's Republic of China — Migrants leaving Badong in mostly rural western Hubei for the provincial capital Wuhan with an overnight bus have to brave the rigors of Highway G209 This article is about internal migration within the People s Republic of China. On top of the… …
9Migration in China — This article is about internal migration within the People s Republic of China. On top of the existing 103 million urban migrants, Chinese cities will face an influx of another 243 million migrants by 2025, taking the urban population up to… …
10Urban society in the People's Republic of China — There is considerable confusion in both Chinese and foreign sources over definitions of urban places and hence considerable variation in estimates of China s urban population (see Migration in China). The problem of determining the size of the… …
