The first major wave of in-migration from the conterminous United States (or the "Lower 48," as Alaskans call it) to Alaska occurred in the 1880s when gold was discovered and fish canneries were developed.
Available evidence from other archaeological sites and historical records attests to the existence of numerous major waves of in-migration onto the Tanzanian littoral over the millennia.
There have been various waves of mass in-migration in recent decades.
But the practice has become particularly pronounced among Hispanic newcomers here in the South, where a huge wave of migration in the 1990's has created large pockets of Latino culture where there had once been none.
More than one million people have arrived in Europe by irregular means this year, the International Organisation for Migration announced, in the biggest wave of mass migration in Europe since the aftermath of the Second World War.
Allowing for that, the true figure was nearly 600,000 according to Tony McNulty, a Home Office minister.John Salt, director of the migration research unit at University College London, says that the population movement since May 2004 is the biggest single wave of migration in British history.
And this was at the same time as the last government enabled the largest wave of migration in our country's history.
Dispersing halfway around the world within the past two millennia, the Austronesian expansion is often considered the last substantial wave of migration in human prehistory [ 3- 5].
Greece witnessed its first wave of economic migration in 1989, after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe.
THE greatest wave of voluntary migration in human history transformed China's cities, and the global economy, in a single generation.
A Canadian couple's backyard dig sheds light on what caused the extinction of the first major wave of human migration in the New World some thirteen thousand years ago.
