Now this basic means of subsistence for between 50,000 and 100,000 urban migrants has been outlawed.

He worked as a labor organizer and ran a self-help center for urban migrants in Chicago.

China's urban migrants sent home the equivalent of US$65.4 billion in 2005.

"If China suffers a downturn, at what point will the substantial number of urban migrants feel pressure, and how will they react?"

Many Gullahs migrated to New York starting at the beginning of the 20th century, and these urban migrants have not lost their identity.

During the 1930s, Trench Pen, in southern St. Andrew (neighboring western Kingston), was a growing squatter settlement for the rural to urban migrants.

To increase access, a package of essential public-health services for rural inhabitants and urban migrants should be provided with governmental subsidies.

In Mr. González's opinion, urban migrants often feel superior to Mexicans from the countryside, and not just because they are typically better educated.

Although some students of immigration worry that urban migrants are more likely to have criminal pasts, many see advantages in the shift that outweigh the possible negatives.

But urban migrants may come with certain disadvantages, in part because they often arrive alone, as young men.