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  2. Rural flight - Wikipedia

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    Rural flight (also known as rural-to-urban migration, rural depopulation, or rural exodus) is the migratory pattern of people from rural areas into urban areas. It is urbanization seen from the rural perspective. In industrializing economies like Britain in the eighteenth century or East Asia in the twentieth century, it can occur following the ...

  3. Quebec diaspora - Wikipedia

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    Quebec diaspora. The Quebec diaspora consists of Quebec immigrants and their descendants dispersed over the North American continent and historically concentrated in the New England region of the United States, Ontario, and the Canadian Prairies. The mass emigration out of Quebec occurred in the period between 1840 and the Great Depression of ...

  4. Human capital flight - Wikipedia

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    Human capital flight. Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, who immigrated to the United States to escape Nazi persecution, is an example of human capital flight as a result of political change. Human capital flight is the emigration or immigration of individuals who have received advanced training at home.

  5. Cheick Oumar Sissoko - Wikipedia

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    Biography. As a student in Paris, Cheick Oumar Sissoko obtained a DEA in African History and Sociology and a diploma in History and Cinema from the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales. He then continued his studies in cinema at the Ecole nationale Louis Lumière . On his return to Mali, he took up directing at the Centre National de ...

  6. The Exodus (1940) - Wikipedia

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    The Exodus ( French: l'Exode) refers to was a massive flight of Belgian, Dutch, Luxembourgish, and French populations in May – June 1940 when the German army invaded Belgium, the Netherlands, and the majority of French territory during the Battle of France, after the breakthrough at Sedan. This exodus is one of the largest refugee crises in ...

  7. Seasonal migration in Niger - Wikipedia

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    Seasonal migration, locally called the Exode, plays an important part of the economic and cultural life of the West African nation of Niger. While it is a common practice in many nations, Niger sees as much as a third of its rural population travel for seasonal labour, during the Sahelian nation's long dry season.

  8. Agricultural extension - Wikipedia

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    Agricultural extension. Agricultural extension is the application of scientific research and new knowledge to agricultural practices through farmer education. The field of 'extension' now encompasses a wider range of communication and learning activities organized for rural people by educators from different disciplines, including agriculture ...

  9. Exodus - Wikipedia

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    Rural exodus, the migratory patterns that normally occur in a region following the mechanization of agriculture; Emigration, the action and the phenomenon of leaving one's native country to settle abroad intentionally; Forced displacement, the act of being forced to leave one's home or native country to be settled abroad