When the infrastructure of an area is developed through increased investment, leading to it having better facilities to resemble the advanced nature of a city, the process is referred to as urbanization.Answer and Explanation: When the people residing i...
RURAL-urban migrationMIGRANT laborSOCIAL marginalitySELF-employmentThis study scrutinizes the causes, configuration, and consequences of rural migrants' motivations for becoming self-employed. It aims to solve two main problems in the current literature. The first is that previous studies primarily explain...
To discuss further the distinction between migration vs. immigration, I have written below some of the subcategories and examples of these phenomena: Internal vs. International Migration Internal migration involves moving within a country's boundaries, like rural-to-urban movement. International migratio...
For years, demographic trends worked in favor of urban growth—huge cohorts of working-age people fueled cities’ economies. But now there is a radical break in that trend. Two major shifts are happening at the same time: population growth is slowing worldwide, and rural-to-urban migration ...
Rural development is a plan to develop the standard of living and well-being of individuals living in rural areas. Rural development may have negative impact on the forest and agriculture as the development may include exploitation of these resources. ...
MigrationSpanish urban areasLabour market factorsIn Spain, economic disparities between regions have traditionally played a relevant role in migration. Nevertheless, during the previous high-instability period, analyses provided conflicting results about the effect of these variables. In this work, we aim...
The term “urbanization” comes fromurbs, the Latin word for city, and means the spread of lifestyles that are common in a city. The term “physical urbanization” is used to denote the actual growth of cities. If the infrastructure of a rural region is developed so that it’s comparable...
But when parents migrate internally, the material benefits for children are less (Cebotari and Dito, 2021), which is relevant for this study because China’s rural migrants mostly move internally. A trade-offs approach to parental migration counterbalances some literature’s earlier emphasis on ...
Rural-to-urban migration is common as people search for better employment opportunities in cities. 8 Emigration Often motivated by economic, political, or environmental reasons. High emigration rates in some countries are due to lack of local employment opportunities. 8 Migration Includes temporary, se...
Migration The movement of people from one place to another, often for living or economic opportunities. The great migration in the early 20th century saw millions move from rural to urban areas in the USA. 12 Diaspora Transnational networks preserving language, religion, and traditions. The Chinese...