Sentence examples for migrating to cities from inspiring English sources

Michael Schmitz, the green-cities advocate on Brown's delegation, speaks of 350 million Chinese migrating to cities in the next two decades, the greatest human migration in history.

More and more people are migrating to cities as land is lost to erosion.

Workers are moving from state-owned enterprises to private companies and migrating to cities from farms for construction and service jobs.

In 2012, A S Moniruzzaman Khan, the director of the Centre for Climate Change and Environmental Research at BRAC University, tracked 1,500 families migrating to cities, mostly Dhaka.

More Chinese are migrating to cities, seeking employment — for the first time in history, urban dwellers outnumber rural ones — but many of them lack the residential permits that would grant them subsidized social services such as education for their children.

Even in China, despite an unreliable postal service and few credit cards, the government is encouraging direct marketing, partly to stop people migrating to cities in search of things to buy.Yet most direct marketing remains clumsy.

It might spare them from distress sales of draught animals, keep them from pulling their children out of school and stop them from migrating to city slums.But is a credible guarantee affordable?

A gendered pattern of migration has complicated this model; that is, while both single women and men migrate to cities for work, after marriage, a man will generally return to migration labour while a woman will not (Fan 2003).

Many people from rural areas migrated to cities, especially when the government of Iraq could no longer control migration.

Another parishioner, Tsuyako Takeya, 66, said all but her youngest child had migrated to cities.

The millions who migrate to cities in search of better jobs, schools and health care are making a reasonable bet.