emigration

Examples of emigration in the following topics:

• Education and Industrialization

  • Human capital flight, more commonly referred to as the "brain drain," is the large-scale emigration of a large group of individuals with technical skills or knowledge.
  • The brain drain is often associated with de-skilling of emigrants in their country of destination, while their country of emigration experiences the draining of skilled individuals.

• Characteristics of Members of Different Religions

  • The Jewish community in the U.S. is composed predominantly of Ashkenazi Jews who emigrated from Central and Eastern Europe, as well as their U.S.
  • Many Sikhs emigrated to the United States, and began working on farms in California.

• Sociological Perspectives on Urban Life

  • Relating this to functionalist theory, one can look at immigration and emigration trends.
  • Immigrants become emigrants and vice-versa; in this way, the chain of life continues in terms of societal relations.

• Three Demographic Variables

  • More generally, while the basic demographic equation holds true by definition, the recording and counting of events (births, deaths, immigration, emigration) and the enumeration of the total population size are subject to error.

• Judaism

  • The Jewish community in the United States is composed predominantly of Ashkenazi Jews who emigrated from Central and Eastern Europe, and their U.S.

• Immigration and Illegal Immigration

  • In general, Americans have more positive attitudes toward groups that have been visible for a century or more, and much more negative attitude toward recent arrivals.According to a 1982 national poll by the Roper Center at the University of Connecticut, "By high margins, Americans are telling pollsters it was a very good thing that Poles, Italians, and Jews emigrated to America.

• Migration

  • During this period, emigration rates were especially high in Italy, Norway, Ireland and the Guangdong region of China.

• The Status of Women in Mexico

  • Situations like this have caused the standard of living among the urban middle class to deteriorate and has also resulted in emigration from this sector to other countries, especially the United States and Canada.

• Population Growth and Overpopulation

  • Once countries pass through the demographic transition, some experience fertility rate decreases so substantial that they fall well below replacement level and their populations begin to shrink (as has Russia's in recent years, though emigration has also played a role in Russia's population decline).