{"title":"Accounting for two population turnarounds in nonmetropolitan America.","authors":"L Long, A Nucci","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"The turnaround [in U.S. rural-to-urban migration] of the 1970s, the metropolitan resurgence of the 1980s, and the rural rebound of the 1990s [have been] described as three unanticipated changes in migration.... [This chapter] compares the magnitude of the three changes in net migration and contrasts the two nonmetropolitan turnarounds.... The results support a view of the 1970s turnaround as the outcome of long-term deconcentrating trends that were interrupted from the late 1970s to the late 1980s by circumstances that favored metropolitan areas. The return of nonmetropolitan territory to net in-migration in the 1990s appears to be due in part to favorable economic conditions that allow more people to act on preferences for smaller places.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":85404,"journal":{"name":"Research in rural sociology and development","volume":"7 ","pages":"47-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22020831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Migration and race in the southern United States.","authors":"N Aratame, J Singelmann","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Using data from the 1985-1990 [U.S.] County-to-County Migration Flow Files..., which facilitate a disaggregated analysis of the effects of migration patterns on the extent of black concentration in the South, this paper analyzes and assesses how migration to and from the South has affected the distribution of blacks and whites in both metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":85404,"journal":{"name":"Research in rural sociology and development","volume":"7 ","pages":"113-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22020347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Population change in the Great Plains since 1950 and the consequences of selective migration.","authors":"R Rathge, P Highman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This \"study was initiated to explore the causes and consequences of persistent population loss in the Great Plains region [of the United States]. After classifying all counties by their growth patterns over the past five decades, we developed a typology that categorized counties based on the direction and magnitude of their population change.... We use this typology to explore the correlates of residential population change, and to examine the explanatory power of the variables found to be statistically significant.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":85404,"journal":{"name":"Research in rural sociology and development","volume":"7 ","pages":"71-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22020832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent population trends in nonmetropolitan cities and villages: from the turnaround, through reversal, to the rebound.","authors":"G V Fuguitt, C L Beale, J A Fulton, R M Gibson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"The purpose of this study is to track and contrast the patterns of local concentration and deconcentration in nonmetropolitan America between 1950 and 1996. We consider the growth of places by initial size as well as the growth of population living in the countryside or in unincorporated hamlets.... To determine how widespread and consistent the trends are, we compare patterns of growth by nearness to metropolitan areas, and by region of the country. We also examine differences among a subset of nonmetropolitan places distinguished by the primary socioeconomic character of their county. Using a detailed data file from the 1990 census, we are able to give some consideration to commuting.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":85404,"journal":{"name":"Research in rural sociology and development","volume":"7 ","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22020346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Renewed population growth in rural America.","authors":"K M Johnson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This chapter documents the fact that \"nonmetropolitan America has experienced widespread population gain and net in-migration since 1990. This contrasts with the trend evident through most of this century.... However, this deconcentration has been selective and tempered by economic period effects. Future nonmetropolitan demographic change is likely to be even more dependent on migration because recent rural fertility patterns, together with age structure shifts, have diminished the contribution natural increase can make to rural growth. This increasing dependence on migration, coupled with the greater integration of nonmetropolitan areas into the national and international system, makes rural America increasingly sensitive to national and global economic, political, and social forces.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":85404,"journal":{"name":"Research in rural sociology and development","volume":"7 ","pages":"23-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22020830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Migration dynamics and development in rural South Africa: demographic and socioeconomic perspectives.","authors":"R E Mazur","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"This paper addresses five key questions related to migration dynamics and development in rural South Africa: (1) Which individual and household level factors are particularly important in understanding migration patterns? (2) Taken together, are sociodemographic or socioeconomic factors more influential? (3) Do present patterns of migration and remittance flows reflect strategies that connote survival, or do they represent household efforts to advance their well-being and their position in society? (4) Which segments of the population appear to gain or lose from contemporary patterns of migration and remittance flows? and (5) How might remittances shape trends in local level development and equality, or inequality?... The data source is the nationwide representative sample survey ¿Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development' undertaken in the latter part of 1993.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":85404,"journal":{"name":"Research in rural sociology and development","volume":"7 ","pages":"197-225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22020828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interprovincial migration in China, 1985-1990.","authors":"D L Poston, M X Mao","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"This paper investigates the patterns and determinants of interprovincial migration streams in China for the period 1985-1990.... Migration flow data from the 1990 Chinese census permit us to examine these issues and policies, and to ascertain the degree to which the objectives of the country's migration policies are being met. We address these and related matters by developing a human ecological model of interprovincial migration that is grounded in a straightforward gravity model which should help us better understand the patterns of migration to, and from, each of the provinces of China between 1985 and 1990.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":85404,"journal":{"name":"Research in rural sociology and development","volume":"7 ","pages":"227-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22020829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The economic and demographic restructuring of nonmetropolitan counties in the Mountain West.","authors":"J M Shumway, J Lethbridge","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"The purpose of this paper is to examine the fluctuating economic and demographic landscapes within nonmetro Mountain West counties [of the United States], describe relationships between the economic restructuring and shifting demographic patterns, and to discuss the potential significance of these transformations for the Mountain West nonmetro region. We begin by articulating a conceptual framework linking economic restructuring (development) and population change due to migration. The remainder of the paper empirically examines these linkages. A concluding section summarizes our findings and provides suggestions for future research.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":85404,"journal":{"name":"Research in rural sociology and development","volume":"7 ","pages":"91-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22020833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}