POVERTY AMONG INTERREGIONAL RURAL-TO-URBAN MIGRANTS.

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]