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rural-urban migration  

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  • Rural-urban migration is both a socioeconomic phenomenon and a spatial process involving the movement of people from rural areas into cities, either permanently or semipermanently. At present, it occurs mainly in developing countries as they undergo rapid urbanization. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Rural-Urban Migration]

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