The purpose of this study was to evaluate the education that Spanish American students received from the Scottsbluff High School, Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Information was collected from 50 former students from the years 1965 and 1968 on their education, present status and suggested school improvements. Data were collected by direct and indirect…

One approach to the use of socioeconomic indicators for analyzing rural development alternative strategies is presented in this paper. The underlying assumptions of such an analysis are discussed. Necessary analytic information include (1) data on rural opinions about each facet of the socioeconomic environment and selected socioeconomic…

This is the first volume of a three-volume study that examined the types of people who are better off by moving from a rural to an urban area and considered possible intervention in the rural-urban migration process. The population for the study was composed of Mexican-Americans who migrated from South Texas to San Antonio and Chicago, Negroes who…

An introduction to the evaluation of the effects of Michigan migrant education projects on migrant children enrolled in its schools during the summer or 1971 is presented in this document. Background information concerning the general migrant phenomenon, the agencies and institutions responsible for providing migrant children with educational…

This essay represents an attempt to look at black migration through an historical-social-epidemiological construct. The etiological factors presented suggest that the major impetus for migration was the quest for a psychosocially less stressful environment. (Author/AM)

The article examines gross migration of households between nonmetropolitan and metropolitan areas, as well as the corresponding counterstream, from 1965 to 1970. Using data from the 15 percent sample of the 1970 census, gross migration flows and rates are estimated and cross-classified by race, age, and marital status. (Author/NQ)

Discusses recent research bearing on the interrelationship of desegregation and the movement of people, mainly students. Reviews studies covering two states, 3 cities, and one county, examines a study of segregation in suburbs, and updates the general arguments about desegregation and white flight. (Author/AM)

Notes that those individuals wishing to emigrate are likely to be critical of and marginal to the American political system. Specifically, potential emigrants are likely to identify with a minor party or to say that they are independents. (Author/AM)

Concludes that those who plan to emigrate from Colombia need orientation and some manner of regularizing their status by work contracts or other legal arrangements. This will assure them just wages and relieve many of the necessity to migrate without proper documents. (Author/AM)

Compares influence of employment growth/diversity, commuting, retirement migration, income, unemployment, age structure, and adjacency with influence of nonfarm self-employment and percentage of labor force that is female on recent declines in nonmetropolitan growth rates. Suggests last two variables are more important determinants of…

Describes the composition of the migrant worker population in the countries of Western Europe and traces developments in government policies regarding control and stabilization of immigration, provision for education and granting of political rights. (Editor)

A variety of reasons for why court-ordered desegregation and bussing did not trigger massive white flight from the Charlotte Mecklenburg school system are given. (Author/AM)

Examines the wetback migration, and legal migration from Mexico which have had a vigorous resurgence in the years following the termination of the bracero program in 1964: the migrants, their methods and the making of the structural forces promoting and sustaining this migration do not conform to commonly held beliefs. (Author/JM)

The conceptual framework of this study is that various population groups have different vulnerabilities to disease, and that different levels of social psychological stress induced by different social stressors lead to differential rates of morbidity. (DM)