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This proceedings contains papers and recommendations focusing on the international migration of women. Growing numbers of women are opting for international migration as a means of improving life chances. This proceedings addresses some of the issues resulting from such migration. The book, divided into four parts, includes an introduction by the…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Females
International Center for Research on Women, Washington, DC. – 1981
A study of women in migration in Third World countries since 1960 reveals that, contrary to assumptions, more women are migrating autonomously from rural to urban areas in an often unsuccessful effort to improve their economic status. The results of the study of migration patterns in Africa, Asia, Central America, South America, and the Middle…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Demography, Developing Nations
Byerlee, Derek – 1972
African nations have been experiencing rapid rates of urbanization accompanied by serious problems of urban unemployment due to the rate of rural-urban migration and the lack of an adequate understanding of the migration process for economic policy formulation. The aim of this paper was to review the present knowledge of African rural-urban…
Descriptors: Capital, Demography, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Nunez, Lucia – 1993
This resource packet looks at the migration flows from six countries in Latin America: Mexico, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Cuba. Students will develop an understanding of some of the conditions that exist in both sending and receiving communities, of the connections that facilitate migration, and of the causes of these…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Culture Conflict, Culture Contact
Haney, Wava G. – 1975
This research report focuses on the educational, migrational, and occupational characteristics of the rural-born people from various class origins in a highland minifundia community near Bogota, Colombia. Three main objectives are to describe the nature of growth and adjustment in the labor force under conditions of rapid population growth and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Developing Nations, Educational Opportunities
Youssef, Nadia; And Others – 1979
Spurred in part by the apparent contradiction between recent data on the magnitude of autonomous female migration and the lack of acknowledgment of that data in recent literature, a 1979 study attempted to define women migrants in 46 Third World Countries in terms of age, marital status, socioeconomic status, factors motivating migration, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Demography, Developing Nations
