The relocation of 323 Southern Plains Indians from western Oklahoma from 1968 to 1972 was studied. A further study was made of the 47 Indians who left their relocation city within a year to return to the reservation. (NQ)

Examining the adaptation of unauthorized Mexican workers in Los Angeles (California), the study revealed a binational life-style. Rather than giving up ties to Mexico, these workers maintained residences in both countries. Extended residence in the United States resulted in an awareness of the advantages of living in both countries. (NQA)

The author relates the story of her parents' outmigration in 1955 from West Virginia to Chicago and their consequent assimilation experiences. The family's problems with self-identity, group identity, discrimination, hostility, cultural differences, and language differences are described and evaluated against the literature, economic factors, and…

This study relates the residential segregation or ghettoization of the Puerto Rican population in New York City to the employment opportunities, mobility and assimilation of the minority. Both ecological and individual level approaches are utilized to investigate three basic questions: (1) What are the mechanisms of the influence of ghetto…

This study, the result of interviews conducted in Quebec and Montreal in the spring of 1975, deals with the adaptation, integration, and acculturation of the Lebanese immigrants in Quebec since the end of World War II. This new immigration wave is contrasted with the one that took place around 1880. Generally speaking, the situation in both the…

This study attempts to measure the degree of assimilation exhibited by various immigrant groups, as indicated by their residential patterns. Ecological models of assimilation hold that immigrants are highly segregated from the majority population upon arrival, but that segregation declines with time in a process of residential assimilation. The…