The series, a moving portrayal of the migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the rural South to the North after World War I and their struggle to adjust to Northern cities, was shown in New York, and brought him national recognition.

The migration of many former slaves and their descendants to major urban centers like Memphis and north to New York City, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and Buffalo ( See: Second Great Migration ( African American )) meant that black and white residents were living in close proximity in larger numbers than ever before, and as a result heard each other's music and even began to emulate each other's fashions.

Wolpoff suggests that after an African origin of Homo sapiens ( including Homo ergaster / Homo erectus ) and the subsequent migration of H. erectus throughout much of the globe with the exception of the Americas, local evolutionary events took place across the world ( Africa, Europe, Asia, and when they were advantageous, they spread everywhere else.

The Neogene evolution of the Central Mediterranean system is dominated by the migration of the Calabrian Arc to the southeast, overriding the African Plate and its promontories ( Argand, 1922 ; Boccaletti and Guazzone, 1972 ).

One possible theory proposes an African origin, with migration to the Americas.

See recent African origin of modern humans for pre-historic human migration.

In the 20th century, African American migration from the Southern United States into the Midwestern states changed Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Detroit, Minneapolis, and many other cities in the Midwest dramatically, as factories and schools enticed families by the thousands to new opportunities.

Because of 20th century African American migration from the South, a large African-American urban population lives in most of the region's major cities, although the concentration is not generally as large as that of the Southern United States.

It also failed to experience the great northern migration of African Americans from the South looking for factory jobs after the Second World War.

It was first recorded in Chicago in the 1920s, and may have been brought there as part of the African American migration to northern industrial cities.

Subconjunctival migration of an adult worm to the eyes can also occur frequently, and this is the reason Loa loa is also called the " African eye worm.

The music of Haiti is influnced mostly by African migration through slavery.

Although UNIA was not solely a " Back to Africa " movement, the organization did work to arrange for migration for African Americans who wanted to go there.

The migration route has been recently discovered and contrary to previous suggestions it has been demonstrated by satellite telemetry to be inland through the African continent.

Along with foreign immigration, domestic migration by African Americans from the South led to Philadelphia having the largest black population of a Northern U. S. city in this period.

Storks injured by arrows ( termed as pfeilstorch in German ) traceable to African tribes were found in Germany in 1822 and constituted some of the earliest evidence of long distance migration in European birds.

The Great Depression wiped out job opportunities in the northern industrial belt, especially for African Americans, and caused a sharp reduction in migration, but a second and larger Great Migration began as defense industries geared up for World War II.

During two waves of massive migration within the United States in the first half of the 20th century, more than 6 million African Americans moved from the South to northern and midwestern industrial cities.

In addition, there has been a net migration of African Americans out of California to return to the South in a New Great Migration.

Linguisic, archeological and genetic evidence also indicates that this expansion included " independent waves of migration of western African and East African Bantu-speakers into southern Africa occurred.

Recent OSL dating of stone tools in Arabia pushed the " out-of-Africa " date hypothesis of human migration back 50, 000 years and added a possible path of migration from the African continent to the Arabian peninsula instead of through Europe.

Also, as a crossroads of the world, Panamanian cuisine is influenced by its diverse population of Hispanic, native Indian, European, African, Colombian, Jamaican, and Chinese migration.

The program was largely a forced migration of approximately 500, 000 Mexicans and Mexican Americans to Mexico, and continued until 1937.

Davis and his family were one of the millions of Americans to migrate to the southwest and California as part of the post-World War II sun belt migration.

The Americans called the community " Yankee Point ", because so many settlers came from the Northern Tier of states, with late 18th and 19th century migration originating from New England.

Mankato Township was not settled by European Americans until Parsons King Johnson in February 1852, as part of the nineteenth century migration of people from the east across the Midwest.

They noted that this was independent of earlier migrations whose descendants comprised the historic cultures of Native Americans as well as of the later migration by the Inuit.

However, by the 1960s, after waves of migration to the North, the number of African Americans in Georgia had declined to 28 % of the state's population.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, as many as one million enslaved African Americans were taken there in a forced migration to work as laborers for the region's cotton plantations.

Shortly before the meeting Eisenhower wrote to his former boss, Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard, and said “ when the war is over and we consider calmly this unprecedented migration of 120, 000 people, we as Americans are going to regret the unavoidable injustices that we may have done .”

During the years of migration from the Upper South, it is likely that some Native Americans also married into the community.

In the early 1900s, the original " East Side " of Central Los Angeles was along Alameda Street, bordered by Brooklyn Avenue or Macy Street ( Now renamed Cesar Chavez Avenue ), Pico and Olympic boulevards and the Los Angeles River or later Indiana Avenue, was sometimes nicknamed Bronzeville in the 1930s and 1940s, due to the mass migration of Mexican Americans, as well Black Americans from the Southeastern U. S. arrived in the Great Depression and World War II mainly settled along Azusa Street and Temple Street ( see the Azusa Street Revival ) bordered by First and Sixth streets, some Koreans after the Korean War in the 1950s and 1960s, and even the Cherokee Indians from Oklahoma, USA to the section where the El Pueblo de Los Angeles: the Mexican pueblo turned to California state historic site happened to be located.

During World War I, the massive migration of African Americans from the South resulted in an even greater residential shift toward suburban areas.

Recent DNA samples from human hair suggest that the ancient Saqqaq people came from Siberia about 5, 500 years ago and independent of the migration that gave rise to the modern Native Americans and the Inuit.

Although Chinese immigrants were a noteworthy presence in the establishment of Southern California from the 19th century, significant Chinese migration to suburban San Gabriel Valley began following the White Flight beginning in the 1970s, well-educated and affluent Asian Americans began settling in the west San Gabriel Valley, primarily to Monterey Park.

This would lead to potentially large demographic effects not only on New Orleans but on the entire country, rivaled only by the Great Migration of African Americans in the first half of the 20th century, and the mass migration of the 1930s as a result of the Dust Bowl.

It also resulted in the mass migration of people from badly hit areas in the Great Plains and the South to places such as California and the North, respectively ( see Okies and the Great Migration of African Americans ).

Obstacles to agricultural development include labour shortages, inadequate management and maintenance, salinization, urban migration, and dislocations resulting from previous land reform and collectivization programs.

Kenya's very rapid population growth rate and considerable rural to urban migration were in large part responsible for high unemployment and disorder in the cities.

a long civil war and recurrent drought in the hinterlands have resulted in increased migration of the population to urban and coastal areas with adverse environmental consequences ; desertification ; pollution of surface and coastal waters ; elephant poaching for ivory is a problem

Like South Korea, North Korea has experienced significant urban migration since the end of the Korean War.

Because of continued migration to urban areas, the figure was doubtless higher in the late 1980s.

Like other newly industrializing economies, South Korea experienced rapid growth of urban areas caused by the migration of large numbers of people from the countryside.

Most of this urban increase was attributable to migration rather than to natural growth of the urban population.

In 1970, the Park Chung Hee government launched the Saemaul undong ( New Community Movement ) as a rural reconstruction and self-help movement to improve economic conditions in the villages, close the wide gap in income between rural and urban areas, and stem urban migration — as well as to build a political base.

As populations expand in poorer countries, rural people are flocking to cities in an extensive urban migration that is resulting in the creation of massive shanty towns and slums

Commercialization and globalization resulted in mass migration of people from rural areas to urban areas resulting in high profile skyscrapers in Asia and Europe. In Asia skyscrapers were constructed in India, China, Thailand, South Korea and Japan.

World War II saw the beginning of a mass Māori migration to the cities, and by the 1980s 80 % of the Māori population was urban, in contrast to only 20 % before the war.

Throughout the 1980s, political dissent and social problems, including inflation, urban migration, and school overcrowding, became great problems in China.

Rickshaw transport was an important element in urban development in 20th century China, both in terms of its provision of transport to the consumers of the service and for the employment it provided ( and migration it facilitated ) for workers.

Topics in regional science include, but are not limited to location theory or spatial economics, location modeling, transportation, migration analysis, land use and urban development, interindustry analysis, environmental and ecological analysis, resource management, urban and regional policy analysis, geographical information systems, and spatial data analysis.

The modern phenomenon of extensive suburban growth, satellite urban development, and migration of city-dwellers to villages have further complicated the definition of towns, creating communities urban in their economic and cultural characteristics but lacking other characteristics of urban localities.

Urbanization, urbanisation or urban drift is the physical growth of urban areas as a result of rural migration and even suburban concentration into cities, particularly the very largest ones.

Variety and quality of educational opportunity, similar to but not equivalent to economic opportunity, is another factor in urban migration, as well as the opportunity to join, develop, and seek out social communities.