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Peer reviewedSouth, Scott J.; Deane, Glenn D. – Social Forces, 1993
In 1979-80, residential mobility was lower among African Americans than non-African Americans after adjusting for differences in home ownership and sociodemographic characteristics. Both African-American and non-African-American mobility were influenced by life-cycle factors, housing characteristics, and metropolitan features, but African-American…
Descriptors: Blacks, Individual Characteristics, Metropolitan Areas, Racial Differences
Peer reviewedRoseman, Curtis C.; Knight, Prentice L., III – Professional Geographer, 1975
Examines characteristics of the residential movement of a sample of individual black households in both segregated and integrated neighborhoods in twelve large cities of the northern and western United States, reporting analyses of the process of adjustment to a new environment the "mover-stayer" concept, and the integration status of a migrant's…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Characteristics, Demography, Family Mobility
Larner, Mary B. – 1986
The United States is known as a mobile society and recently Sweden has also seen higher rates of mobility. A study was conducted to examine how local residential mobility affects the lives of families in Sweden and in black and white communities in the United States, and to investigate how moving affects social networks. Interviews were conducted…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cross Cultural Studies, Family Mobility, Foreign Countries
Fielding, Elaine L. – 1990
The 1980 United States Census showed a marked acceleration in the suburbanization of blacks during the 1970s. This study analyzes statistical data from the 1985 American Housing Survey (AHS) National and Metropolitan Files to determine if that pattern of acceleration continued in the 1980s. These sets of data also permitted racial and…
Descriptors: Black Population Trends, Blacks, Migration Patterns, Racial Distribution
Peer reviewedLogan, John R.; Schneider, Mark – American Journal of Sociology, 1984
Black migration to American suburbs accelerated from 1970-80, increasing the proportion of Blacks in suburbs throughout the United States. In the North Blacks moved disproportionately into communities with high Black concentrations, while in the South, many Black suburbs experienced an influx of white residents. (Author/IS)
Descriptors: Blacks, Migration Patterns, Neighborhood Integration, Racial Composition
1979
Housing and social conditions in urban America suggest a major shift of the inner city poor to the older suburban neighborhoods. This paper explores that anticipated massive population exchange and suggests ways to measure its effect on the schooling process. The concern here is that thousands of poor city dwellers will relocate to the suburbs and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Problems
