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Wunderman, Lorna E.; Steiber, Steven R. – Journal of Medical Education, 1983
Sixty-five percent of physicians entering their first professional positions leave the counties of their residencies, following a national migration trend to the Sun Belt. Most of these were in nonprimary care specialties and moved into self-employment or office-based practices, were disproportionately male, and moved to smaller urban or nonurban…
Descriptors: Geographic Distribution, Graduate Medical Students, Higher Education, Migration Patterns

Nanjundappa, G. – Phylon, 1981
Utilizes data from the 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity in the United States to (1) examine occupational differentials among Black employed males who migrated between the South and the non-South, and (2) estimate the loss of Black work force experienced by the South through migration to other regions of the country. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Black Employment, Blacks, Blue Collar Occupations, Employment Level

Todaro, Michael P. – Journal of Geography, 1980
Identifies the rapid growth of cities in developing nations as one of the most significant demographic phenomena of modern times. Comparative data and policy considerations are presented for the world generally, and for Africa, Latin America, and Asia, specifically. (DB)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Geographic Concepts, Geography, Human Geography

Heinberg, John D.; And Others – International Migration Review, 1989
Develops and analyzes a new database that links information on a sample of exempt immediate relative immigrants in Fiscal Year 1985 with information on the characteristics of their petitioners or sponsors in order to examine the chain migration issue. Analysis indicates that an explosive increase is unlikely. (JS)
Descriptors: Children, Family Characteristics, Family Size, Futures (of Society)

Mixon, Franklin G., Jr.; Hsing, Yu – Economics of Education Review, 1994
Measures determinants of out-of-state enrollments in institutions of higher learning throughout the United States. Tobit regression results suggest that college size, status, selectivity, collegiate sports participation, and other factors significantly influence a university's percentage of nonresident student enrollments. The economics of college…
Descriptors: College Students, Enrollment Influences, Higher Education, Human Capital

Kandel, William; Massey, Douglas S. – Social Forces, 2002
Examines a Mexican "culture of migration," in which U.S. migration becomes an expectation for young people. Among approximately 7,000 secondary students surveyed in Zacatecas (Mexico), adolescents from families involved in U.S. migration were more likely to aspire to live and work in the United States, increasing the likelihood they…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Family Influence, Foreign Countries, Immigration
Judson, Dean H.; Reynolds-Scanlon, Sue; Popoff, Carole L. – Rural Development Perspectives, 1999
From 1990 to 1998, net inmigration in Oregon hit unprecedented high levels, leading to policy concerns about needs for infrastructure and services. Different regions of Oregon attracted migrants who differed dramatically in age, educational attainment, occupational status, and income. Migrants who moved for quality-of-life reasons were willing to…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Educational Attainment, Income, Migrants
Gerber, David A. – History Teacher, 2001
The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate the relevance of transnationalism to understanding historical European international migrations to the United States. The author attempts to do this in two ways. First, through analysis and critique of the historical literature, including his own past work, this essay demonstrates the ways in which a…
Descriptors: United States History, Historiography, Immigration, Migration Patterns
Pane, John F.; McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Tharp-Taylor, Shannah; Asmus, Gary J.; Stokes, Billy R. – RAND Corporation, 2006
The purpose of this technical report is to provide timely documentation of many of the short-term effects of the movements of students that occurred as part of the displacement of storm victims. The report will help guide educators and policymakers in their ongoing responses to this disaster and preparations for future events. Focusing on the…
Descriptors: Public Education, Information Systems, Public Schools, Natural Disasters
Tolnay, Stewart E.; Eichenlaub, Suzanne C. – Social Forces, 2006
The Great Migration of southerners away from their region of birth stands as one of the most significant demographic events in U.S. history. The first waves of migrants headed primarily to the Northeast and Midwest. During and after World War II, a larger proportion moved to the West. We use information from the 1970 through 2000 public use…
Descriptors: United States History, Economic Status, War, Immigrants
Chavkin, Nancy Feyl – 1991
This ERIC digest describes the lives of migrant families, migrant students' education, and migrant parents' involvement in their children's education. Migrant families tend to travel along well-established geographic routes which can be identified as the East Coast Stream, the Mid-Continent Stream, and the Western Stream. In 1986, the average…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Dropout Rate, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education

Roseman, 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
A World-Wide Overview of Migratory Movements. The Education of Migrant Workers -- Where Do We Stand?
Blanchard, Francis – Prospects, 1974
A survey of world migration patterns prefaces a declaration of educational problems and ways of solving them as viewed by the International Labour Organization (ILO). The problems are conceptualized on the socio-cultural and occupational levels and involve both the worker and his family. (JH)
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Employment Patterns, Labor Education, Labor Market
Bryce-Laporte, Roy S., Ed.; Couch, Stephen R., Ed. – 1976
This book presents six papers on Latino migrant workers and recent Indochinese refugees in the United States, most of which focus on problems of fieldwork. The book's three sections, "Migrant Workers,""Indochinese Refugees" and "Research Summaries and Reports," each contains two papers and an introduction. (1)…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Hispanic Americans, Indochinese, Migrant Workers
Fawcett, James T., Ed.; Carino, Benjamin V., Ed. – 1987
The following papers are collected in this anthology of research on East-West international migration: (1) "International Migration and Pacific Basin Development" (James T. Fawcett and Benjamin V. Carino); (2) "The Global Picture of Contemporary Immigration Patterns" (Mary M. Kritz); (3) "One Field, Many Views: Competing…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Migrant Problems