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Peer reviewedFlynn, Cynthia B.; And Others – Gerontologist, 1985
Compared data on the elderly's interstate migration patterns for 1960, 1970, and 1980 censuses. Florida ranks as top destination and continues to attract migrants, as do Arizona and Texas. Elderly migrants concentrate in a few destinations, making the impact of migration patterns on service delivery significant in certain states. (NRB)
Descriptors: Migrant Problems, Migration Patterns, Older Adults, Population Trends
Prewitt Diaz, Joseph O.; Seilhamer, Emily Stella – 1985
Almost 300 non-migrant, migrant, return migrant, and circulatory migrant high school students participated in a study of the relationship of the level of adjustment to mainstream Puerto Rican society and the frequency of migration. No direct relationship between reading achievement and physical adjustment was found. However, as the level of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
Teller, Charles H.; Butz, William P. – 1984
This paper examined the relationship between temporary migration and childhood malnutrition in Guatemala and questioned whether migration patterns or low socioeconomic status produced a special risk group. The study emphasized policy implications of high priorities placed on population redistribution in Latin American governments and the…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Failure to Thrive, Foreign Countries, Health Needs
Download full textPrewitt Diaz, Joseph O.; And Others – 1989
This report re-examines previously gathered ethnographic data derived from approximately 3,000 hours of interviews with migrants across the United States to determine what factors associated with migration affect children's educational outcomes. The data suggest the existence of a "culture of migrancy," which is manifested in similar…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography
Haney, Wava G. – 1975
This research report focuses on the educational, migrational, and occupational characteristics of the rural-born people from various class origins in a highland minifundia community near Bogota, Colombia. Three main objectives are to describe the nature of growth and adjustment in the labor force under conditions of rapid population growth and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Developing Nations, Educational Opportunities
Hopf, Diether; Hatzichristou, Chryse – 1992
This paper presents salient points of a comprehensive project on the educational problems of southern European migrant workers' children in schools in Germany. These selected findings concern the origins of the migrants, the selectiveness of the migration process, and the school situation of the children of the migrants and of those migrants who…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Young, Ruth C.; And Others – 1979
To provide current demographic and needs assessment information for public and private agencies serving migrants, a survey was conducted among farmers and the migrant workers they employed. Of 228 migrant labor camps in western and central New York, 57 were selected for study by a stratified random sampling procedure which assured adequate…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Blacks, Crew Leaders, Demography
