BACKGROUND Manifest socio-economic differences are a trigger for internal migration in many sub-Saharan settings including Kenya. An interplay of the social, political and economic factors often lead to internal migration. Internal migration potentially has significant consequences on an individual's economic growth and on access to health services, however, there has been little research on th...

The author analyzes the rapid process of urbanization (which involved large-scale rural-urban migration) that occurred in the USSR during its industrialization during the 1930s. Data are from official Soviet sources, including the censuses of 1918, 1926, and 1939. The author examines factors that attracted migrants to cities as well as those that drove them from the countryside. The system o...

The internal migration of nurses within Canada has had limited study. This paper reports the results of a survey of registered nurses and licensed practical nurses who had migrated between the provinces and territories in Canada. Factors contributing to internal nurse mobility included seeking full-time work, opportunities for career advancement and flexible scheduling options. Few nurses recei...

The migration process is a physically integrated molecular phenomena that contributes to many physiological motility in vivo processes such as development, immune surveillance and cancer metastasis. To understand cell migration it is necessary to consider the cell’s environment, cell type and morphology as well as the internal organization of the cells, i.e. its cytoskeleton and focal adhesions...

Post-Soviet countries like the whole world do not stand apart of migration study. Despite the fact that for more than 70 years Russia was excluded from global migration processes the internal migration caused by urbanization and differentials of regional development had a considerable breadth and propelled examination of population mobility. That facilitated formation of inquiry avenues and res...