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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
Erkut, Sumru; Fields, Jacqueline P. – 1983
Relocation of dual career families often translates into career advancement for the spouse whose job prospects initiate the move and career disruption for the spouse who follows. To describe the relocation concerns of men and women in dual career marriages, 32 professional couples were interviewed. Half the sample were black and half were white,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Blacks, Dual Career Family, Empathy
Larner, Mary B. – 1986
The United States is known as a mobile society and recently Sweden has also seen higher rates of mobility. A study was conducted to examine how local residential mobility affects the lives of families in Sweden and in black and white communities in the United States, and to investigate how moving affects social networks. Interviews were conducted…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cross Cultural Studies, Family Mobility, Foreign Countries