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Ho, Li-Ching; Seow, Tricia – Social Education, 2013
Chinatowns are familiar emblems of "Chineseness" in many countries and are among the most visible and tangible spatial manifestations of Chinese migration. Large and well-established Chinatowns can be found in diverse locales, including New York, San Francisco, Vancouver, Paris, Sydney, and Singapore. Despite sharing numerous easily…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Migration, Governance
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Akar, Hanife – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
Turkey is a country that has experienced and continues to experience a dramatic degree of both rural-to-urban and inter-regional internal migration. Migrants tend to settle in "gecekondu" areas in either established inner-city neighborhoods or in newer squatter settlements built on undeveloped land bordering rural areas on the urban…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Economically Disadvantaged, Migration, Student Problems
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Li, Mingliang – Economics of Education Review, 2009
In the U.S., white parents may choose to send their children to private schools in response to the local concentration of minority schoolchildren, commonly referred to as "white flight". This paper contributes to the existing literature by providing new evidence on white flight from the data set High School and Beyond (HSB). I find that a…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Economically Disadvantaged, Metropolitan Areas, Counties