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Migration in China: Methodological and Policy Challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Alice Goldstein and
Sidney Goldstein
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Migration has long been recognized as an important mechanism for allowing populations to adjust to changing economic conditions (Goldstein and Goldstein, 1981; Findley, 1977, 1982). Massive population movements from rural to urban locations were an integral part of the European modernization process, as were movements to hitherto undeveloped frontier regions including ones overseas. Rapid urban growth, due in part to migration, has more recently characterized many of the developing nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

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Social Science History , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , Summer 1987, pp. 85 - 104
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1987 

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