rural-urban migration

Rural-urban migration is the movement from country areas to towns and cities.

The long term aim is to also reduce rural-urban migration.

Mumbai saw large scale rural-urban migration in the 21st century.

The rural-urban migration pulled labour away from the countryside where the important export products were made.

The majority of the population in Damascus came as a result of rural-urban migration.

This shift occurred as a result of large-scale transatlantic and rural-urban migration.

The bad weather has also reduced food security, intensified poverty and increased domestic rural-urban migration for many families.

Since then, Indonesia has been facing high urbanization rate driven by rural-urban migration.

In addition, increasing rural-urban migration fuelled the wage and social disparity.

It has also encouraged rural-urban migration as rural areas suffered severely from worsening economic conditions during the 1980s.

The new economic difficulties of small holder farmers and landless farm workers led to increased rural-urban migration.

Rural-urban migration brings conservation threats and opportunities to Amazonian watersheds.

This contributed to high rural-urban migration from west African nationals to the city, and consequently a high population growth rate.

Since the Soviet period, the families in Abari have used rural-urban migration to access the different resources provided by the village and the city.

Petaling Jaya progressed rapidly due to the massive rural-urban migration.

The large productivity and wage gap between cities and countryside also drives a high rate of rural-urban migration.

Without proper management and actions taken, the continuous influx or rural-urban migration may pose as a serious threat to the infrastructure in the urban cities.

Rural-urban migration originating in other parts of Spain reduced the social use of the language in urban areas.

Finally it should be mentioned that war and economic misconduct have led to the dilution of rural resources and periodically very high rural-urban migration.

China classically manifests two of the characteristics of development that Lewis had in mind: rising return to education and rural-urban migration.

The proposal to encourage people to move back there will help maintain a demographic balance and reduce the negative selection process that stems from rural-urban migration.

The uneven development among Morocco's regions fueled a cycle of rural-urban migration that has shown no signs of slowing down.

There is also considerable Rural-Urban migration to Lusaka.

Already in 2000, the increase had put intense pressure on natural resources, particularly land and forests, and had resulted in increasing rural-urban migration.

Focuses on these factors include studies on rural-urban migration, kinship in the city, problems that arise from urbanism, and social stratification.