Michael Chen was part of another great wave of emigrants, who came from a series of villages along the Min River in Fujian Province, a mountainous sliver of coast across the straits from Taiwan.
A local expert explained that Mansueto was part of the first wave of emigrants who departed in 1888 in search of better opportunities.
Africa appears to have been the source of not just one but successive waves of hominin emigrants, including H. heidelbergensis, which had originated by 600 kya and found its way to Europe by 500 kya.
But many others are going for good, and unlike past waves of Chinese emigrants, they include accomplished mid-career professionals who have little to gain financially by leaving.The raw numbers, though impressive, are small as a percentage of the Chinese population.
She taught in a rural school for two years, then, as a member of the first wave of impoverished emigrants from the island, she moved to New York City.
A further wave of Jewish emigrants fled to London from German fascism in the 1930s, followed by a wave of refugees from central Europe in the upheavals at the end of World War II.
DUBLIN — Nighttime is when David Monahan stalks dark streets in search of Ireland's "Generation Bailout," the nickname for the current wave of young Irish emigrants who are fleeing financial crisis for far-flung countries.
In the early 1980s western Europe feared that letting Portugal and Spain into the European Economic Community would set off a migratory wave of job-seeking emigrants from these countries.
The reprise of emigration from Italy and the other Southern EU countries reflects our earlier discussion of the role of migration in European centre periphery dynamics, and the way that this new wave of highly qualified emigrants is but the latest stage of a historical model of Southern European migrations, coherent across Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece (King, 2015).
