International migration plus ongoing rural-to-urban migration increased city size.    From Wordnik.com.  [4. Population Trends and Migrations] Reference

But Ncube said the new maps did not reflect a significant rural-to-urban migration in recent years.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Cities will inevitably be even denser than they are today, as rural-to-urban migration accelerates.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Next: Skyscrapers] Reference

Today, the Internet takes the place of the printing press, and cross-country migration replaces rural-to-urban migration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making the Great Transformation (Conference)~ Session Three] Reference

The rural-to-urban shift, one of the largest human migrations in history, is helping create a new middle class that is embracing higher standards of living.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Investors, China's Boom Is a Rough Ride] Reference

These people, the unemployed and "rural-to-urban migrants" constitute a reserve army of labor that keeps wages in the formal sector down and workers 'bargaining power weak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reviewing James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer's "Multinationals on Trial"] Reference

For female rural-to-urban migration, see Jeanne Penvenne, "Seeking the Factory for Women: Mozambican Urbanization in the Late Colonial Era," Journal of Urban History 23, no.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

The massive influx of uprooted European peasants from 1880 to 1924, as well as internal rural-to-urban migration, left millions of children roaming the streets of American cities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Underclass] Reference

Since more than a third of Mongolians herd livestock for a living, the loss of livestock could mean an increased rural-to-urban migration for thousands of families seeking new means of income, said an aid group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bitter Winter in Mongolia] Reference

Over three decades of Banda's rule, the fact that Malawi had mineral riches such as gemstones, bauxite, gold and diamonds was kept quiet and no exploitation was allowed for fear it would trigger a rural-to-urban migration.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Yet they remain a marginalised and deprived group, with no rights and often no status in the cities – fundamentally as a result of the state's hukou, or household registration, system set up in 1958 to control rural-to-urban migration.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's migrant workers want rights, not handshakes] Reference

Growing biomass is a rural, labour-intensive activity, and can, therefore, create jobs in rural areas and help stem rural-to-urban migration, whilst, at the same time, providing convenient energy carriers to help promote other rural industries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 3] Reference

The combination of bigger ambition and uneven development has created a deeper sense of entitlement, even incipient class consciousness among workers — especially rural-to-urban migrants whose lives have changed radically under economic liberalization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michelle Chen: In Summer of Strife, China's Proletariat Debuts on World Stage] Reference

Black barbecue cooks, whose sauces and rubs tend to have slightly sweeter flavor profiles, have left their distinctive mark on barbecue in Texas, particularly in the big cities, just as they have in Memphis and Kansas City, where rural-to-urban migration resulted from a declining farm economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrating Barbecue] Reference

Special U.S. census data revealed that of 11.8 million new city dwellers counted between 1900 and 1910, immigrants accounted for 41 percent, American-born rural-to-urban migrants accounted for 29.8 percent, natural increase accounted for 21.6 percent, and incorporation of new territory accounted for the remainder.    From Wordnik.com.  [1909, March 4-1913, March 4] Reference

As an example, massive numbers of rural-to-urban migrants in China.    From Wordnik.com.  [PSD Blog - The World Bank Group] Reference

In order to investigate patterns of rural-to-urban migration data on the size of cities were obtained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

It has brought money to remote villages, made them more accessible and stabilised rural-to-urban migration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Monde diplomatique - English edition] Reference

China is facing a significant tuberculosis epidemic among rural-to-urban migrants, which poses a threat to TB control.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Insufficient infrastructure, non-existing civic services and lack of opportunities in rural areas have increased rural-to-urban migration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Light Within] Reference

An understanding of rural-to-urban migration dynamics illuminates the way in which migration alters the circumstances of those left behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essential Estrogen] Reference

Accelerated rural-to-urban migration, destruction of infrastructure for safe drinking water / sanitation, exploitation of resources, and deforestation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Issues News Headlines] Reference

Among other consequences, this strategy is resulting in staggering levels of rural-to-urban migration, leading to dangerous overcrowding of Port-au-Prince.    From Wordnik.com.  [CounterPunch] Reference

One legacy of this rural-to-urban migration is the shantytown communities on the hillsides around Port-au-Prince, which were so vulnerable to the earthquake.    From Wordnik.com.  [newmatilda.com - Comments] Reference

It's a supple system; standards can be adjusted to the local rural-to-urban transect by observing and measuring local types, thus identifying the community's best DNA to code for the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network] Reference

Talking to Douglas McGray in Wired magazine, Brand urges governments to save slums as they are hubs of creativity, offer a rural-to-urban transition and are good for the environment, not to mention for gender equality.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC Blog Network] Reference

The impact of misguided USAID and other development policies also produced significant rural-to-urban migration (nearly 4.5 percent annually), as displaced farmers flocked to the cities in search of work in the assembly plant/maquila sector.    From Wordnik.com.  [CounterPunch] Reference

South Africa's social cohesion is being undermined by at least four factors: massive rural-to-urban migration; inward and largely uncontrolled foreign immigration (notably from Zimbabwe); a perennially high level of unemployment (around 25 per cent, currently compounded by job losses caused by the global recession); and the growing casualisation of work.    From Wordnik.com.  [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference

We tested the hypotheses that rural-to-urban migrants have a higher prevalence of obesity and diabetes than rural nonmigrants, that migrants would have an intermediate prevalence of obesity and diabetes compared with life-long urban and rural dwellers, and that longer time since migration would be associated with a higher prevalence of obesity and of diabetes.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

"We need to rethink this idea of rural-to-urban migration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anchorage Daily News - Alaska News] Reference

Slide 14: Conclusion "Can China maintain social stability in the face of what appear to be unprecedented levels of rural-to-urban migration?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

1 new Beijing every year for 35 years … = 2 X the total built volume of China … driven by population growth … rural-to-urban migration … China becomes an urban society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space and Culture] Reference

The inter-state analysis showed that migration from rural-to-urban areashad increased whereas urban-to-urban migration declined.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Analysis] Reference