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  2. Migrant education - Wikipedia

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    The primary form of migration within China isn't that of rural-rural farming migration, but that of rural-urban migration. Through the hukou system, a form of citizenship registration, the Chinese government divides citizens into one of two categories of: urban or rural. Historically, this has created a hierarchy between urban and rural ...

  3. Education of immigrants in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Education plays a strong role in nationhood, where a sense of unity emerges among student cohorts who go through an education system together. [49] For young migrant populations, public education serves as one of the strongest mechanisms of integration as the American education system largely focuses on "Americanization", the development of a ...

  4. Student migration - Wikipedia

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    Student migration is the movement of students who study outside their country of birth or citizenship for a period of 12 months or more. [1] During the period of globalization, the internationalisation of higher education increased dramatically and it has become a market driven activity.

  5. Immigration - Wikipedia

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    Effects may vary due to factors like the migrants' age, education, reason for migration, [80] the strength of the economy, and how long ago the migration took place. [ 81 ] Low-skill immigration has been linked to greater income inequality in the native population, [ 82 ] [ 83 ] but overall immigration was found to account for a relatively ...

  6. Social integration - Wikipedia

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    Although migration is often accompanied by obstacles in the short term, such as unemployment, discrimination, and language barriers, numerous studies indicate that immigrant groups make significant progress over the long term in areas such as language acquisition, education, employment, and income. While policy measures can play a role ...

  7. Human migration - Wikipedia

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    Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, [1] with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region). The movement often occurs over long distances and from one country to another (external migration), but internal migration (within a single country) is the dominant form of human migration globally.

  8. Sociology of immigration - Wikipedia

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    For example, since the 1980s and 1990s, the American economy has favored workers who have valuable skills to offer. If immigrants to the United States, for example, have valuable skills to offer, they may "increase the chances of economic success in the United States, such as the language and culture of the American workplace". [ 20 ]

  9. Migration studies - Wikipedia

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    Migration is a recurring theme in much popular media, such as in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 2013 novel Americanah or in contemporary film such as Roma (2018), consequently, discussions on migration and the arts are some of the more publicly-visible avenues of scholarship in migration studies.