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This paper examines the relative effects of a set of economic factors and three sets of noneconomic factors-demographic, public service and governmental, and socioeconomic factors-on 1960-1970 and 1970-1980 age-specific net migration rates for Texas counties. The results indicate that economic factors were clearly the most powerful predictors of migration during the 1960-1970 period. During the 1970-1980 period, economic determinants were still the most powerful predictors of migration levels for age groups over 40, but socioeconomic factors were the mot powerful predictors for those 10-29 years of age while demographic factors provided the best predictors for the 30-39 year-old group. Overall, the results suggest that economic factors have decreased, and noneconomic (particularly socioeconomic) factors have increased in importance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With so many other social, economic and environmental factors at work establishing linear, causative relationships between anthropogenic climate change and population dynamics it has been difficult to pinpoint the specific human consequences of climate change on respective populations. Qualitative information was examined based on interviewees’ testimonies and personal experience, as well as a descriptive analysis of population records, climate-change related impacts, and consequences of uneven development in the Republic of Kiribati and Tuvalu, two low-lying atoll nations in the Pacific region taken as examples to illustrate the issues involved. Strong evidence was found that recent influxes in population movements to urban central islands from rural outer islands experienced in these countries can be attributed to a combination of the adverse impacts of climate change and socioeconomic factors inherit in small island developing states. Moreover, internal migrants cannot be accommodated in their states of origin, putting pressure on local infrastructure and services. This, combined with a recent population boom, has led to a decline in human development indicators and a general livelihood decline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we survey common themes in recent migration research and comment on the actual and potential contribution of regional science to this literature. There has been a marked shift in research from internal to international migration. The two research programmes would benefit from a unified framework. Spatial and systemic features of migration systems remain underdeveloped. Moreover, the perspectives from the different disciplines that intersect in regional science can still be integrated better. Communication of the research findings in terms understood by policymakers and practitioners is also desirable. Finally, many new and interesting research topics will emerge when greater effort is made to link migration research with other current research topics in regional science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective. Survey research posits that Mexican Americans' perceptions of the costs and benefits of immigration drive their opinions about immigration, but this research does not provide a clear picture of how Mexican Americans calculate these costs and benefits. This article aims to understand the processes that explain how Mexican Americans calculate the costs and benefits of Mexican immigration. Methods. The article employs 123 in-depth interviews and observation with later-generation Mexican Americans in Garden City, Kansas, and Santa Maria, California. Result. Respondents are ambivalent about how Mexican immigrants affect their lives, and their ambivalence is driven by prevailing ideologies in American society regarding immigration, race, and ethnicity. On the one hand, ardent anti-Mexican nativism leads Mexican Americans to see substantial costs accruing to Mexican immigration. Mexican Americans fear that anti-Mexican nativism leads to status degradation for all people of Mexican descent. On the other hand, an ideology of multiculturalism and its accompanying value of diversity lead Mexican Americans to see substantial benefits accruing to the large Mexican-immigrant population, particularly in politics, the labor market, and popular culture. Conclusions. Mexican Americans' perceptions of the costs and benefits of Mexican immigration are based not only on economic considerations, but on social and cultural considerations structured by prevailing and often paradoxical ideologies. Respondents' structural position increases concerns about status degradation resulting from immigration, but also shapes how they are positioned to benefit from the boost in prominence that immigration provides to the entire Mexican-origin population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objectives: Drawing specifically on the German case, I argue that individuals' motivations for immigration, or so-called push-pull factors, have a lasting impact beyond the decision to immigrate and, in fact, profoundly influence immigrants' political integration in the host country. Specifically, economic push-pull factors are likely to impede immigrants' political integration, whereas political push-pull factors lead immigrants to remain more interested and engaged in politics while abroad. Methods: I test these hypotheses using a combination of qualitative interviews conducted in 2002 with first-generation Turkish immigrants living in Berlin, and quantitative survey data from the 1998 German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Results: Results from both analyses lend considerable support to these assertions. Conclusions: The positive findings suggest that factors unique to the immigrant experience contribute to a fundamentally different understanding of immigrants' political integration from that of natives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At least two important demographic changes will occur in the United States in the future: the growth of the Hispanic population and the growth of the second and third generations among Hispanics. We argue that the expansion of the Hispanic population is unlikely to slow the retreat from marriage, despite the pronuptial cultural orientations of some groups of immigrants and their native-born coethnics. On the contrary, the second- and third-generation descendents of immigrants will join in the retreat from marriage as a result of their exposure to the cultural and economic environment of the United States, as well as changes in the countries from which their immigrant parents originate. Sources of uncertainty about this scenario are noted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study examines the influence of household agricultural and socioeconomic attributes on long-term migration of household members and investigates differences in these effects among agriculturally and socio economically diverse rural communities. The data are for 180 households surveyed in a panel study conducted in rural portions of three Colombian municipios (counties) in 1963 and 1971. Independent variables incorporated in the logistic regression models include measures of change between 1963 and 1971 as well as static measures for 1965. Other than control variables of little substantive interest, no variable significantly predicts migration in more than one of the three communities. Structural reasons for these different patterns of selectivity across communities are identified. The analysis supports earlier contentions that migrants from origins with strong overall resource pushes are less selective than migrants from other settings and that different patterns of community structure and community structural change result in different patterns of selectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the abstracts of the articles appearing this issue of the journal. The article on international migration examines the social, economic and political effects of this strategy of development by exploring the role of Indians, who, with Pakistanis, form the largest group of migrants to the Gulf states. The article on China's One-Child Family policy explores the economic, social and demographic conditions that led to the decision. Official intentions and public response, as recorded in journals, newspapers and official radio broadcasts, are assessed and some of the implications for socioeconomic development of successful promulgation of such a policy are indicated. The article on circular migration in Indonesia finds that the great majority of nonpermanent movers have no intention of shifting permanently to their urban destinations. The bulk of this mobility, however, goes unrecorded; the criteria used to define migrants in the 1971 census excluded most short-term and short-distance movers.

Migration and residence data from the 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity are used to examine the differential incidence of poverty among people of rural origins. Migration within and between the South and the North (the census Northeast, North Central, and West aggregated) is analyzed for Negro-white patterns of movement and associated proportions in poverty. Poverty status, the dependent variable, is operationally defined as a measure of how successfully adults in various residence and migration categories have coped with their environments. A social systems framework is utilized, and a set of theoretical propositions is induced from the findings. These propositions are statements of relationships between social distances traversed and differential selectivity operative in migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents literature related to rural sociology. Migration, training and occupation of youth from two areas of Utah one, six and eleven years after high school graduation have been studied. Study of characteristics of the Negro population including number, residential and geographic distribution, age and sex distribution, occupation, education and income have been done with the study of trends and comparisons with white population. Nature and extent of socioeconomic and attitude differences in French and non-French ethnic groups in rural Louisiana are taken in account. Sample area from three types of communities, French predominant language, English predominant language, French and English approximately equal. Comparison of Maine's contract broiler growers 1957 and 1963 as to socioeconomic characteristics and characteristics of the operation have been done. An examination of economic trends in the Appalachian economy using Bureau of Census data. Most comparisons for 1950 and 1960.