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)

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)

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)

Used secondary data sources to examine relative importance of geographic mobility as factor affecting use of Veterans Administration (VA) health services by older veterans. Found that variation in state VA health service admission rates was better explained primarily by characteristics of resident nonmobile veteran population and characteristics…

This UNITAR News Issue presents the background and working papers prepared and utilized by the participants in a workshop on Planning for Internal Migration held in Jamaica and Cuba in April 1976. This workshop, attended by planners and government officials from the Caribbean and some Latin American countries, convened to discuss mutual problems…

In this paper the authors analyze the interactive dimensions of geographic and career mobility while at the same time examining the associated implications of these interactions for the age selectivity of migration. (Author/SSH)

The study determined: if there were economic and/or demographic differences between them which existed prior to out-migration; what were the actual earnings differences between cohorts of return and nonreturn migrants following their migration; and if return migrants experienced an improvement or worsening in earnings relative to cohorts of…

Examined the influence of birth place on the internal migration and spatial redistribution patterns of foreign-born and native-born populations in the United States for 1975 to 1980 and 1985 to 1990. Differing patterns and networks established by immigrant cohorts have resulted in higher concentrations of the foreign-born compared to the…

The migration patterns of college and university students in Virginia are described in relation to other states, public and private institutions, male and female students, student educational level, the migration deficit, and future migration patterns. Based on 1968 statistics the out-migration of Virginia students exceeds the in-migration of…

Samples from immigration data compiled on the recent influx of Cuban refugees to the United States are analyzed for demographic characteristics and occupational histories, and compared with the resettlement experiences of earlier groups of Cuban immigrants. (SK)

During 1981-84, migration patterns of both the poor and nonpoor consistently reinforced preexisting spatial concentrations of poverty. High migration rates of the poor into and out of high poverty counties suggest an equilibrium condition. A locale's persistent poverty may result not from lack of opportunity but from an opportunity structure that…

Geographic mobility of the labor force is an adjustment mechanism essential to the maintenance of a growing economy which is undergoing technological change and a rising educational level. This study analyzes the factors which influence mobility decisions to determine whether these choices are made on the basis of rational economic motives. To…

Used a four-year participant observation study of 15 older adults in an Appalacian town to explore the tensions between factors that encourage relocation to the homes of children who moved outside the area and the inertia caused by reluctance to give up a familiar lifestyle and local friends. (JAC)

Data from the 1990 U.S. Census on the effect of admission criteria on immigrant earnings profiles found that nonoccupation-based immigration, usually family-based, was associated with lower entry earnings but higher earnings growth than occupation-based immigration. Earnings became nearly equal after 11 to 18 years. (SLD)