Ambitions for social mobility among rural southern Blacks and their influence on out-migration trends were explored in this analysis. Data utilized were collected as part of a more comprehensive study of living patterns among disadvantaged families. In the summer of 1970, samples of Black, female adults were drawn from 2 rural villages and a town…

Fresno County comprises Region 4 of the California Migrant Education Program. The area enjoys a low 6.9% unemployment rate compared to the state average of 7.83%. An analysis of movement patterns of migrant students from, to, and within the state showed that 348 migrant students entered the region from another state in 1977; Texas, Arizona and…

The research findings reported in this paper, a revised version of a paper presented at the Conference on Migration and Behavioral Deviance, Puerto Rico, 1968, are drawn from a study designed to supplement the survey phase of the Beech Creek Study (1961). The aim of this research report is to investigate patterns of adaptation and reaction to the…

Using data extracted from the Migrant Student Record Transfer System, a study was undertaken to (1) define the flow of migrant children to and from the state month by month, (2) determine the principal movement patterns, and (3) examine intrastate movement and its patterns. For trend analysis, data were compared for the calendar years of 1975,…

The five counties of Madera, Merced, Contra Costa, San Joaquin and Stanislaus constitute Region 3 of the California Migrant Education Program. A study to evaluate movement patterns of migrant students from, to and within the state was conducted using data from the Migrant Student Record Transfer System. It indicates that in 1977 Region 3 ranked…

Kern County in the south central part of the state makes up Region 5 of the California Migrant Education Program. Using the Migrant Student Record Transfer System as a data base, a study was conducted to examine the flow patterns of migrant students from, to and within each region and the state in 1977. Intrastate students dominated the California…

Located at the southeastern corner of the state and bordered by Arizona and Mexico, Imperial County makes up Region 6 of the California Migrant Education Program. Using the Migrant Student Record Transfer System as a data base, a study examined the 1977 flow patterns of migrant students from, to and within the state and each region. This region…

Riverside and San Bernardino Counties constitute Region 7 of the California Migrant Education Program. Using data from the Migrant Student Record Transfer System, a study was conducted to examine movement patterns of migrant students in 1977. Intrastate (and intraregional) movement dominated the flow picture for the region, as well as for the…

Region 8 of the California Migrant Education Program, located in the central portion of the state, is composed of Kings and Tulare Counties. A study was conducted, using data from the Migrant Student Record Transfer System, to examine the flow patterns of migrant students to, from and within the state in 1977. It showed that intrastate movement…

Located in the southwestern corner of the state, Region 9 of the California Migrant Education Program is composed of Orange and San Diego Counties. With 684,469 elementary and secondary students in its schools, the region ranks first in overall enrollment when compared with the other eight regions. A study on the flow patterns of migrant students…

Analyses of data obtained from 790 questionnaires collected from a sample of public high school seniors in a relatively low income, sparsely settled county in northern New York State in May, 1962, revealed some of the effects of 2 family systems--the immediate family and the extended family--on the migration planning of high school seniors.…

Using data taken from the Migrant Student Record Transfer System, a study was undertaken to examine migrant student movement patterns for Region 1 of California's Migrant Education Program which includes eight counties located along the Pacific coast between Los Angeles and San Francisco. In 1977, 490 students entered Region 1 from another state;…

Region 2 of the California Migrant Education Program, located along the northern California coast and inland, includes 13 contiguous counties north of a line between San Francisco and Sacramento and the two counties in the northwest and northeast corners of the state. Using data extracted from the Migrant Student Record Transfer System, a study…

Describes an individual's experience returning to his native Czechoslovakia, 43 years after fleeing Communism. Discusses problems faced in transforming people conditioned to an authoritarian state into citizens of a democracy. Stresses that good intentions and sincerity are not enough to understand area studies and the importance of intercultural…

The North Carolina Mobility Project was an experimental program designed to determine if unemployed people in economically depressed areas of North Carolina could be relocated to and satisfactorily employed in the State's more highly industrialized Piedmont. The aim of the mobility project was to intervene in the migration patterns of the State so…