• At the time of this "Great Migration" over 80 percent of the Puerto Rican population in the United States lived in New York City.

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  • Recent conflicts and rural to urban migration that reduced the population of the region and changes in ways of life have caused a sharp decrease in the number of performers, resulting in the loss of many archaic styles and genres of solo singing.

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  • Thanks to a combination of in-migration and people not leaving when they retire, the population of over-65s in the district has increased from 14, 500 to 19, 600 since 2001.

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  • U.S. delegation member Anne Richard, assistant secretary of state for population, migration and refugees, thanked the Turks for providing refuge.

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  • "It was the embassy's view, and the Department concurred, that because of their vulnerability, we should consider them for resettlement, " says a spokeswoman for the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.

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  • Ellen Sauerbrey, assistant secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration, has spent two days in Boise, Idaho.

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  • The majority of the work streams take on-board the essential aspects of our future policy for population and migration.

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  • More than half the rise in the population of England and Wales was due to migration.

    BBC: Census shows rise in foreign-born

  • Migration from other parts of America means that the state's population is growing at the second-fastest rate in America.

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  • Which means that within those years there was a net population grow of 4.6 million people through migration.

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  • This jibes nicely with domestic migration trends and growth in the foreign-born population, both of which have been strongest in many of these same cities.

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  • But the mass migration of newcomers, who have increased tremendously as a portion of the population, has also sparked widespread resentment among Singaporeans faced with ever greater congestion, crowding, high property prices and ever-greater competition for good jobs.

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  • The Houston metropolitan area, with a population of 6.1 million, experienced a net migration gain of 313, 800 new residents during the past five years.

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  • The developing world is seeing a huge migration of people from the countryside to sprawling cities: Guatemala City's population has surged to over 2.5m today, for example.

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  • However, the fact that immigrants eventually surpass their native-born counterparts also suggests that migration is a selective process, bringing the more ambitious or venturesome elements of a population.

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  • In the '90s, most of the growth in the Hispanic population was due to in-migration, but today births are the driving force, said David Drozd, research coordinator at the Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Nebraska in Omaha.

    WSJ: U.S. Hits a Demographic Milestone

  • Population growth and migration from western Europe may have driven up the frequency of people carrying haplogroup H.

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  • Faced with the migration of these bears, Swiss authorities have the dilemma of whether to try to protect the population as a whole or a few individuals, the environment office said.

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  • This is a quickly fading paradigm which has held us in its grip for hundreds if not thousands of years, and has affected every aspect of our human life from politics , economics , health and religion to population migration, wars, and scientific development.

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  • What's more, the parts of the world where populations are growing fastest are also those most vulnerable to climate change, and a rising population will exacerbate the consequences of global warming water shortages, mass migration, declining food yields.

    ECONOMIST: Demography, growth and the environment

  • This argument cuts little ice with Migration Watch chairman, former diplomat Sir Andrew Green, who says the presence of a settled Romanian population in the UK is a "pull factor" that will encourage more to make the journey.

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  • It is now clear that the migration of humans out of Africa was more complicated than previously thought, and that human history involved not just successive population splits, but also frequent mixing.

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  • Decades of migration from the Pashtun heartland on the two sides of the Afghan-Pakistani border have turned Karachi into the largest Pashtun population center in the world, with some 5 million citizens of Pashtun origin.

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