In this article, the authors discuss the problematic trends affecting New England's human capital. These trends include migration to other states of New England's graduates due to high cost of living; more than 60 percent of college dropouts; and the decision of most companies to outsource jobs in India and other countries.

My main contention in this article is that the nation-state paradigm for policies targeted at effecting development in sub-Saharan Africa is undermined by arbitrary colonial boundaries and porous borders and the challenges of transnationalism as part of the globalization phenomenon in late modernity. The nation-state paradigm is also the framework…

Because of similarities in the pronunciation of "c" and "z" in Spanish America and Andalusia, it has been supposed that there was a great Andalusian migration to the New World. However, this pronunciation was also prevalent in other parts of Spain where "s", "c" and "z" were often confused. (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)

This paper uses multiple linkage analysis to identify greater than expected out-migration flows (salient flows or links) from State Economic Areas (SEAs) within the southeastern United States for two time periods, 1955-60 and 1965-70. In addition, the number of salient flows per SEA are compared with selected characteristics of the SEA, such as…

Six papers on Caribbean immigrants and refugees in south Florida are presented in this document. Their titles (and authors) are: (1) "Let's Welcome the Refugees" (Bryan O. Walsh); (2) "The Haitians and America's 'Pull'" (Anthony P. Maingot); (3) "Estimates of Haitian International Migration for the 1950-1980 Period"…

The author discusses the significance of immigrant Mexican labor on the United States labor market. (Adapted from a 1974 Industrial Relations Research Association conference paper.) (EA)

This study provides migration trends for black and nonblack students who scored highest on the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (NMSQT). The nonblack sample of 51,096 consisted of all those who had obtained an NMSQT score of 137 or above -- about 2 percent of all 11th graders obtain scores this high. The black sample of 8,162 included…

This study examines the background characteristics of two large national samples of first-time enrolled freshmen who (a) attended college within their state of residence but away from their home community, (b) migrated to a college in an adjacent state, (c) migrated to a college in a distant state, and (d) attended college in their home community.…

Since World War II, Australia has been a major country of refugee settlement. This article traces its immigrant policy and resulting population from its interest in encouraging immigration for its own population growth and development to its current commitment to help refugees and Special Humanitarian Program (SHP) cases. (ETS)

To illustrate how various groups of Spanish-Americans differ from one another, the migration histories and the distributional characteristics of the Cuban and Puerto Rican populations living in the United States are compared. (RM)

This study examines the search behavior of 380 intra-urban residential migrants, who were interviewed within four months of moving to a new location. Data on all houses searched are included, as well as the actual house selected. The results indicate residential search behavior is a minimizing process. (BT)

This report provides a demographic analysis of immigration to the United States and California, using information from the Immigration and Naturalization Service annual reports and digital database for 1990-98. It features details on the Asian immigrant population for the 1990s. From 1820-1998, about 62 million immigrants came to America. Nearly…

This annotated bibliography provides an overview of the history, development, and representation of the process of Dominican migration to the United States. It examines the causes and consequences of this massive exodus in connection with the economic and political rapport between the Dominican Republic and the United States. It also offers an…

A comprehensive view of population conditions as a psychological problem includes three ways in which demography and psychology interact: the transformation of a basic biological need into social values and symbolic expression, the fitting of crucial life events into a comprehensive view of human lives, and the integration of the methodology of…

Explored issues concerning aged return migration, including the common features of states that strongly attract their migration-prone native sons and daughters and what might account for the differences in demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of return and non-return migrants. (Author)