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Practice making bold text

Here is an article about weather in North India If I want to cite it again, it works like this

This is still confusing. Citation seemed to work but the notes things didn't act as expected.

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Practicing a heading
does this work here RBThom (talk) 22:55, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Evaluation of Internal Migration page
The article is a stub. It has very few citations. Some of the statements could use citations. The tone is neutral, so that is OK.

The first reference, which is to a government publication, doesn't link to anything. I don't know for sure, but think one should be able to link to it.

The examples in the first section come from different parts of the world, which is a good thing, but there are no citations.

None of the information appears to be out of date, but there is a lot more that could be added. ~ The above evaluation post didn't get signed because I didn't understand how to do it I am still not totally sure. The questions I am trying to answer are: Can internal migration, especially the secondary migration form, be further illustrated? Can sources be cited for the first section? I plan to add information about secondary migration of Somali refugees to the secondary migration section on the page. I will also see if I can find sources for some of the other statements. ```` Somehow that still didn't sign correctly, trying again RBThom (talk) 23:06, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Secondary migration[edit | edit source]
A subtype of internal migration is the migration of immigrant groups—often called secondary or onward migration. Secondary migration is also used to refer to the migration of immigrants within the European Union.

In the United States, the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a program of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services's Administration for Children and Families, is tasked with managing the secondary migration of resettled refugees. However, there is little information on secondary migration and associated programmatic structural changes.Secondary migration has be hypothesized as one of the driving forces behind the distribution of resettled refugees in the United States.

Somalis and Secondary Migration
Somalis, a refugee group that was initially widely dispersed in the United States, has formed significant communities in Minnesota, Ohio, and Washington. Secondary migration to Minneapolis, Minnesota and Columbus, Ohio, has made those two areas first and second, respectively, in Somali American population. Geographer Tamara Mott states that being near family, friends, and other Somalis was the main reason Somalis migrated to Columbus, OH.

Lewiston, Maine, became a secondary migration destination for Somalis after social service agencies relocated a few families there in February 2001. From 1982 to 2000, resettlement agencies placed refugees, including 315 Somalis, in the Portland, Maine area. High rates of rental housing occupancy in Portland caused the first relocations to Lewiston. Somalis have a history of nomadism and maintain contact, often via cell phone, with a large network of extended family, clan members, and friends. More Somalis learned about Lewiston and were attracted by the quality of life there, the low housing costs, good schools, safety and greater social control of their children in the smaller town. Between February 2001 and August 2002 over 1,000 Somalis moved to Lewiston. Most of these early secondary migrants came from Clarkston, Georgia, a suburb just outside Atlanta. By 2007, Somalis were 6.5% of the population of Lewiston and had come to the city from all over the United States and at least three other countries.

See also: History of the Somalis in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, History of the Somalis in Maine