Moving to the Country: Return Migration to a Rural Area.

Autor/in	Mapstone, James R.
Titel	Moving to the Country: Return Migration to a Rural Area.
Quelle	(1975), (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Age Differences; Comparative Analysis; Demography; Employment; Family Structure; Income; Migrants; Migration Patterns; Motivation; Place of Residence; Population Trends; Rural Areas; Rural Population; Rural Resettlement; Socioeconomic Influences; Theories; Urban to Rural Migration; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Demografie; Dienstverhältnis; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Einkommen; Migrantin; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Wohnort; Bevölkerungsprognose; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Landbevölkerung; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Theory; Theorie; Stadtflucht
Abstract	Study objectives were to: compare in-migrants with non-migrants in order to ascertain the migrants' demographic and socioeconomic contributions to rural areas; analyze the patterns of this in-migration to determine the presence and extent of return migration; contrast returned migrants with in-migrants who had no prior residence in the rural area; and examine those portions of return migration characterized as either goal-oriented moves or failure-to-adapt moves. A minor civil division designated rural and experiencing both a declining population and in-migration (northern New York) was examined via survey (99 households) in terms of age, occupational structure, income, education, and size and structure of family residence. Results indicated: migrants and non-migrants differ, the migrants being younger, more often employed, and less often retired; the migration stream was predominantly return migrants; returned migration was the source of the demographic and economic differences between the migrant and non-migrant populations, the returned migrants being less like the native population than the new migrants. Implications were: returned migration constitutes the major type of movement to a declining area; family relations are paramount in counterstream theory; speculation that urban to rural migration is stimulated by a search for alternative life styles is not supported; differences within the return migration stream necessitate a refinement of migration theory incorporating goal-oriented moves and moves resulting from failure to adapt. (JC)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC