Sentence examples for extensive emigration from inspiring English sources
Nevertheless, rural overpopulation led to extensive emigration during the last two decades of the 19th century.
A high density of population and limited economic opportunities provoked extensive emigration, mainly to the United States and Canada, from the end of the 19th century well into the 20th century and has not entirely ceased.
Two serious plague epidemics and extensive emigration to the New World reduced the number of children.
Douglas S. Massey, co-director of the Mexican Migration Project at Princeton, an extensive, long-term survey in Mexican emigration hubs, said his research showed that interest in heading to the United States for the first time had fallen to its lowest level since at least the 1950s.
Mary has extensive knowledge on the topic of Irish emigration and was once an Irish emigrant herself, leaving the country in 1994 before returning in 2003.
Despite this promising start and three centuries of subsequent prosperity, emigration to other Italian towns, extensive intermarriage and, finally, German deportations during World War II combined to reduce Pitigliano's current Jewish population to six.
Initially, it severed his lines of communication with Germany by curtailing the extensive correspondence he had carried on with German friends and colleagues since his emigration in 1935.
An extensive search of the population registers traced the correct personal identity code (PIC), possible emigration date and vital status for all but 9 (0.1%) of the cohort members.
Both countries are quintessential 'emigration states' (see Gamlen, 2008) with extensive 'migration cultures', whose authorities have concentrated their policy efforts throughout the 20th century on encouraging and channeling emigration, as well as controlling or courting their diasporas (Brand, 2002; de Haas, 2007; Natter, 2014a).
The extensive colonization efforts by the Greeks around the Mediterranean produced a further kind of political document regulations governing conditions for emigration and return, citizenship rights of the colonists, and relations between the colony and the mother community.
