Title: Migration and residential mobility in the United States.

POPLINE Document Number: 201513

Author(s):

Long L

Source citation:

New York, New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 1988. xviii, 397 p. (The Population of the United States in the 1980s. A Census Monograph Series.)

Abstract:

The major goal of this book is to integrate and communicate the trends and patterns of geographical mobility within the US, as revealed by decennial censuses since 1940 and major national surveys conducted during those decades. Census questions on state of birth and residence 5 years earlier and survey questions on residence 1 year earlier provide overlapping images of the amount and major forms of geographical mobility in the US from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. This book attempts to show where the picture is clear, and where there are missing pieces that need to be filled in for policy or for research purposes. This book gives an overall perspective, highlighting relationships among the various forms and patterns of spatial mobility, as measured in censuses and surveys, and describing what has changed and what has not over the last half century. The book stresses what has been learned, and it tries to show how research and policy debates have influenced and been influenced by the available statistics on internal migration. The 8 chapters include 1) Research and Data on Geographical Mobility, 2) National Rates of Geographical Mobility, 3) Migration for States, 4) Return and Repeat Interstate Migration, 5) Interregional Migration, Race, and Public Policy, 6) Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Mobility, 7) Reasons for Moving, and 8) International Comparisons of Geographical Mobility. Appendices includes 1) Sources and Quality of Data on Internal Migration, 2) Lifetime Mobility and Cross-sectional Data, and 3) How States Rank on Various Measures of Migration.

Keywords:

United States
North America
Migration
Migration, Internal
Geographic Factors
Ethnic Groups
Policy
Nonmetropolitan Population
Return Migration
Motivation
Urban Population
Urban Population Distribution
Residential Mobility
Residence Characteristics
Changes
Comparative Studies
Social Policy
Rural Population
Data Sources
Census
Cross Sectional Analysis
Demographic Analysis
Developed Countries
Americas
Population Dynamics
Demographic Factors
Population
Cultural Background
Population Characteristics
Psychological Factors
Behavior
Population Distribution
Social Change
Studies
Research Methodology
Data Collection
Population Statistics