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McInnis, Kathleen M. – 1981
A demographic study was conducted to examine the secondary migration rate of 782 Indochinese families resettled by the Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and upper Michigan between May 1975 and October 1980. Although 18 percent of the families were found to have left their original location of resettlement, this rate is lower than the mobility…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Family Characteristics, Indochinese, Migration Patterns
Download full textWest, Patrick C.; And Others – 1985
Consequences of population turnaround for rural economic development are examined in a 9-county region of Northern Lower Michigan. Data from census reports and 374 usable responses to a questionnaire mailed to a random sample of property owners drawn from 1982 county tax assessment rolls were used to test competing hypotheses about rural…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Economic Factors, Economic Research, Employment Patterns
Clay, Daniel C.; Price, Michael L. – 1979
The recent, widespread trend toward rural migration can create disturbances in the organization of the host community by overloading community services and by creating conflict between oldtimers and newcomers. To obtain information about community disturbances and migration in Michigan, questionnaires were sent to a random sample of 21,792…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Planning, Community Relations, Community Services
Frankena, Frederick – 1984
Findings of a study to establish the determinants and effects of urban to rural population migration patterns in Osceola County, Michigan, where a 27.6% increase (4,090 people) occurred during the 1970's, illustrate typical effects of population migration turnaround on nonmetropolitan schools. The study revealed that school facilities were…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedWest, Patrick C.; And Others – Rural Sociology, 1987
Census data and mailed questionnaires were used to test three hypotheses about unemployment impacts: labor-market infusion, labor-market overload; and a balance of positive and negative impacts differing with occupational status. Results showed that blue-collar persons--both newcomers and long-term residents--experienced much higher unemployment…
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Community Characteristics, Employment Patterns, Labor Market
Johnson, Nan E., Ed.; Wang, Ching-li, Ed. – 1997
This book includes studies of globalization-related social changes in rural areas of the United States and other countries and implications of these studies for sociological theory. Although no chapter focuses exclusively on education, education-related themes include rural school dropouts and intergenerational poverty, the migration of rural…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Patterns, Farmers, Foreign Countries
Gladhart, Peter Michael; Britten, Patricia – 1978
A rural township in one of the fastest growing counties in northern Michigan was selected as a prototype for changes in small rural communities experiencing rapid population growth due to inmigration. In 1973, 180 permanent residents and 58 seasonal homeowners in Hayes Township completed questionnaires covering household composition; family…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Attitudes, Community Change, Community Characteristics
