Population

In general short-term migration seems to be most prevalent among the socioeconomic marginalised groups; the poorest of the poor, illiterates, Scheduled Tribes and Castes, where they migrate from the rural area to urban areas. The micro survey of the Migration Policy Institute suggests that most internal migrants are between the age of 16 and 40 whose duration of stay is between 60 days and a year. Here the marginalised, scheduled tribes and castes are overrepresented in the short-term migration…

Urbanization refers to the process of raising population growth in cities and rural, it also includes the rise of industrialization. The government, industry and business deal in urban areas are involved.The United States and Europe had started their urbanization since the 19th century. On the other hand, by the end of 2014, 54.7% of China’s total population live in the urban areas, which is a rate that rose from 26% in 1990. They are currently experiencing a rapid increase. Yet, urbanization…

Most of the population lives in urban areas the inter-urban migration is governed largely by the economic factors. The people move from one urban area to another urban area because improving their employment prospects. RURAL TO RURAL MIGRATION: The movement of people may take place from rural area to rural area. Rural population is response to the changing pattern of employment potential of different areas, it has been…

Foreign-born Americans, as well as the generations before them, have been the main driver of U.S. population growth and the epicenter of national racial and ethnic change, since passage of the 1965 law that changed the nation’s immigration policy. It is projected they will remain as such over the next 50 years. This comes as a surprising, yet fearful revelation in a country that has seen an increase in immigration tension and alienation. A recent survey done by the Public Research Religious…

female and 48% male respondents. This would allow having opinions from a fair balance of both genders. All respondents lived in rural areas mainly, Beau Bassin, Rose- Hill, Port Louis and nearby cities. It is very unlikely that members of the Chinese population live in the remote areas of the island. The main languages spoken were French and Creole with 54% speaking primarily French and 36% speaking Creole most of the time. Respondents attend colleges such as the St Esprit College, Royal College…

Many of them are descendants of Washington’s first white settlers. Asians began moving into Washington in the 1800s and make up about eight percent of the current population. Washington’s Native American population is the sixth largest in the country and make up two percent of the current population. The Yakima, Lummi, and Quinault are the largest tribes. Most make their homes on one of twenty-seven reservations in Washington. Famous Washingtonians include musician Jimi Hendrix…

controversial shift. The U.S. today is going through a population increase due to illegal Mexican immigration. Homosexuals or gay people are fighting for their rights to further the peace of the marriage equality vote. The U.S. is trying to protect the American people from the horrific incidents of the terrorist group ISIS. The world is going from bad to worse and it seems every day there is a new problem arising dealing with these types of situations. Population rates are climbing, people are…

Most Asia countries have male-biased sex imbalance resulting in a deficit described to as missing women. In China there has been a steady increase in the number of “missing women” Qian states that “an estimated 48.4 percent of the population in China and India are female”1. Most of the missing women in the world are in India and China where it is stated there is an estimated deficit of close to seventy million women. The sex imbalance has been documented in richer Asian countries like Taiwan and…

Introduction The City of Phoenix is the fifth largest city in the United States and the core of the State of Arizona, both in terms of the State’s government and the population. The overall City of Phoenix fiscal year operating budget for 2017-2018 is 4.5 billion dollars, approximately about half of the State of Arizona’s 9.6 billion dollar budget (COP,AZ)The Phoenix Police Department is the largest department in the City of Phoenix and one of the larger government entities throughout Arizona.…

Introduction So why do people migrate to cities? Well there is an array of answers which will be covered in this essay. The number of people internally migrating, moving to cities from rural areas within a country is growing, also known as urbanisation (Procupez, 2015). The sovereign state of the United Kingdom (UK) I will use as a case study due to the rapid rate of urbanisation that has occurred up until present. The main points covered will be, what is believed to be the main reason which…