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Mack, Jay; DeKock, Paul; Yount, Dave – 1993
This simulation allows students to experience how their ancestors felt when they decided to emigrate to this country. The basic activity is a core simulation in which students role-play either an immigrant or an immigration processor at Ellis Island in 1900. The amount of time available determines additional enhancement options offered in the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Foreign Policy, Immigrants, Immigration
Manpower Research Visibility, 1972
Statistics and general findings on rural to urban movement with insights into current problems and solutions. Manpower Research Visiblity is a supplement to the American Vocational Journal. (Editor/MU)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Labor Force Development, Labor Needs, Labor Utilization
Garcia, John A. – AGENDA, 1981
Discusses patterns of regional population shifts and economic growth (or decline) and the direct relationship they have with Hispanic populations throughout the United States. Suggests that such developments have direct and indirect consequences on Hispanics' economic and political status. (Author/LC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Economic Factors, Economic Status
Pickard, Jerome – Appalachia, 1981
Largely from immigration, Appalachian population grew by over 2,000,000 from 1970 to 1980, a rate of 11.1 percent. Statistical tables give state, local development district, regional and county-group population figures for 13 Appalachian states. A map and bar graphs show rate of population change by county, region and state. (NEC)
Descriptors: Demography, Economic Change, Migration Patterns, Population Distribution
Effland, Anne B. W.; Butler, Margaret A. – Rural Conditions and Trends, 1997
In 1996, nonmetropolitan immigrants lived mainly in the South (37%) and West (35%) but were unevenly distributed. Over half were Mexican; 38% of naturalized citizens, and 24% of noncitizens were children. Compared to metro immigrants, nonmetro immigrants had lower educational attainment, earnings, and rates of welfare assistance and higher poverty…
Descriptors: Children, Demography, Educational Attainment, Employment Level
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Johnson, Kenneth M. – Rural Sociology, 1989
Summarizes population redistribution trends in nonmetropolitan areas between 1980 and 1987. Examines the contribution of net migration and natural increase to rural growth, the change in counties based on their involvement in the 1970s population turnaround, and the impact of variables typically associated with population change. Contains 27…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Economic Factors, Migration Patterns, Population Growth
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Keller, George – Planning for Higher Education, 1995
Three major demographic trends (immigration patterns, dissolution of the traditional family structure, and the emerging age profile of the United States population) and three social trends (socioeconomic polarization, growing importance of the Pacific Rim countries to American trade, and new communications technology) are examined as they affect…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Administration, College Planning, Demography
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Cushing, Brian J. – Urban Studies, 1993
Addresses out-migration from and in-migration to metropolitan areas in the United States and particularly the effect of the social-welfare system on migration decisions. The results provide only weak support for the hypothesis that social-welfare benefits influence out-migration decisions but moderate support for its influence on in-migration.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Economically Disadvantaged
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Yashiro, Kyoko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1995
Examines the experiences of Japanese "returnees," native Japanese who have returned to Japan after an extended stay abroad, focusing on the linguistic and cultural challenges faced by ethnic Japanese children and adolescents who must reacculturate themselves in Japan. (33 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingualism, Cultural Background, Cultural Influences
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Trlin, Andrew D. – Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 1993
Describes changes in social roles, formal organizations, and social stratification arising from immigration in New Zealand during the 1980s. Examination reveals defects in the institutional structure of immigration. Immigration policy, immigrant policy, and ethnic relations policy are related to the less desirable effects of immigration in New…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Government Role
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Samman, Mouna Liliane – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de Pedagogie, 1993
Education about international migration should (1) utilize a framework of historical evolution; (2) stress the growing interdependence of nations; (3) emphasize universal moral values and the role of the individual in human rights; and (4) consider the complementary or competing portraits of international migration presented by the media. (DMM)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Demography, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy
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Smith, Inese A. – Multicultural Review, 1992
Latvians are among the ethnic groups dispersed to many parts of the world. The history of the Latvian diaspora is traced, and the maintenance of Latvian ethnic identity is explored, including the status of Latvian libraries. Latvian independence is expected to have an impact on Latvian culture abroad. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Cultural Differences, Ethnic Groups, European History
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Bastian, Dawn E. – Journal of Archival Organization, 2005
The Sidney Heitman Germans from Russia Collection at the Colorado State University Libraries is named in honor of the late Dr. Heitman's years of research and teaching about Colorado's second largest ethnic group. Created to support his Germans from Russia in Colorado Study Project, active at the university in the late 1970s, the collection's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Ethnic Groups, Oral History
Mutwarasibo, Fidele – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2005
Within the course of a decade Ireland has emerged from being a country of emigration to a country of immigration. Since the mid-1990s, Ireland has undergone rapid economic expansion with the recent economic growth resulting in approximately 252,000 migrants entering Ireland over the last 6 years, according to the Irish Times (2003). While a large…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Migrant Workers, Foreign Countries, Immigration
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Dunn, James – Journal of Geography, 2004
People have been leaving rural environments and moving into urban environments. By 2007, the most people in the world will live in cities (United Nations 2002). Mexico illustrates this world trend closely. Mexico now publishes data on the Internet that can be used to study the movement of people within the country. A lesson is presented with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural to Urban Migration, Urban Demography, Migration Patterns
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