• 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.

    BBC: reith feed

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

    BBC: NEWS | Europe | Guernsey | States passed population strategy

  • 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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  • The activists who were denied entry on Sunday were from Portugal, Canada, Switzerland, France, Spain and Italy, said population and migration authority spokeswoman Sabin Hadad.

    CNN: Israel detains pro-Palestinian activists

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

    BBC: Making of Europe unlocked by DNA

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

    NPR: U.S. Allowing Fewer Refugees than Promised

  • The urban population of the world is forecast to grow to 6.3 billion people in 2050 from 3.4 billion in 2009, representing both population growth and net migration from countryside to city.

    UNESCO: CULTURE

  • "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.

    WSJ: Secret Mission Rescues Yemen's Jews

  • Agence France-Presse, which described Taft as "assistant secretary for population, refugees and migration administration" in the U.S. State Department, quoted a U.S. Embassy spokesman in Delhi who also said Taft's visit had nothing to do with the Karmapa.

    CNN: ASIANOW - Asiaweek | Daily Briefing: Teen Dream

  • 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

  • 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.

    UNESCO: CULTURE

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

    BBC: Census shows rise in foreign-born

  • There is a very important factor: one-third of the municipalities of the country have more voters than population, which means that there is substantial migration of voters.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Why the Venezuelan election was fraudulent

  • Science plays an important role in our response to global issues such as climate change, the hydrological cycle, biodiversity loss, natural hazards and human-induced disasters, population growth, land-use change, migration and urbanisation.

    UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: Environmental Science

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

    FORBES: Five Myths About Russia

  • Net migration, which tracks shifts in the population after cancelling out offsetting moves, has remained relatively constant (see chart).

    ECONOMIST: Free exchange

  • 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.

    FORBES: While Rest Of U.S. Economy Plods, Houston Gets Hot

  • The migration to new jobs means that Phoenix's population has remained relatively young.

    ECONOMIST: Urban sprawl

  • There was also internal migration from the Mainland to Hawaii, boosting the population, and creating linkages between the Hawaii and southern Californian economies.

    FORBES: After the Japan Earthquake/Tsunami: Hawaii -- the New Mid-Pacific Business Hub

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

    CNN: Commentary: Sotomayor as American as mango pie

  • 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.

    FORBES: America's Fastest- And Slowest-Growing Cities

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Why the old are moving inland

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

    ECONOMIST: Immigration

  • 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

  • The weak recovery has slowed migration, but expensive, overregulated and dense metropolitan areas continue to lose population to lower-cost, less regulated and generally less dense regions.

    FORBES: Where Americans Are Moving

  • 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.

    FORBES: Decline Of The Asian Family: Drop In Marriages, Births, Threatens Economic Ascendancy

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Pentecostals

  • 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.

    FORBES: Four Easy Ways For Republicans To Attract Immigrant Voters

  • 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.

    CNN: Switzerland's only wild bear is killed as a danger to humans

  • 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.

    BBC: Composite of images from romania

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