In contrast with many European nations, university students in the United Kingdom have traditionally relocated for their higher education (HE). However, with rising fees and diversification of the student body, an increasing number are remaining in their parental or own home whilst they attend a local university or commute to a HE provider. For…

Through expanding flows of labor and knowledge on a global scale, academics are increasingly mobile as higher education institutions compete for talent that transcends borders. However, talent often flows from the periphery to the core as scholars seek out employment in recognized institutions of higher learning in developed economies. This study…

Since the Obama administration launched the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in 2012, which offers temporary relief from deportation and the right to apply for work authorization for certain unauthorized immigrants who came to the United States as children, 55 percent of the 1.2 million youth who immediately met the program's…

Culture serves as a guiding framework to parents while rearing their children. However, when parents immigrate from one culture to another, they have to negotiate the conflicting demands and values of the two cultures when making decisions about child rearing. The present study investigated various aspects of parenting demonstrated by…

Using data on housing voucher recipients with school-aged children residing across the state of Wisconsin, we perform a three-stage analysis of the relationship between voucher receipt and the educational opportunities of children in recipient households. First, we examine the extent to which voucher receipt results in households relocating to a…

Conducted three studies of coping in older people, two addressing coping with health problems, the other coping with moving. Results in all studies showed the number of coping strategies decreased with age. However, results did not support the idea that decreases in the number of strategies implied decrements in the quality of coping. (Author/ABL)

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)

Examines the relationship between mobility and fertility among women in a low income urban neighborhood, comparing recent movers with long-term residents in one neighborhood in Bronx, New York with a view toward clarifying the relationship between fertility and intra-urban migration or mobility; movers are found to have lower fertility than…

The effects of family migration (1) are negative for employment status, weeks worked, and earnings, null for weeks unemployed, and marginal for attitudes; (2) are similar for married women in their 20s, 30s, and 40s; and (3) do not last beyond the first or second year after a move. (Author/RM)

A questionnaire to identify the time to adjust, sources of stress, and importance of services was completed by 241 residents (68 percent), median age 70 years, of a continuing care retirement community (CCRC). The answers to these questions provided valuable information; however, an equally important finding was the variability of responses…

The long-term adjustment problems of individuals who were removed by force from their place of residence due to the government acquisition of their property are examined. Data were derived from a study of 185 families and individuals displaced by the construction of the Carr Fork Reservoir project in rural, eastern Kentucky. Although many of the…

Used an inventory of coping behaviors to examine how adolescents (N=41) cope with the stress of relocation. The most helpful techniques were establishing friendships, starting over, experiencing loneliness, and maintaining current functioning. Females seemed to use more coping behaviors successfully than males. Age differences were less…

The relationship between age and residential factors in environmental preference was investigated by measuring the degree to which recently institutionalized elderly adapted to the new environment. Their needs and preferences for environmental qualities of stiumulation, order and privacy were assessed and compared with a matched sample of older…

This report simultaneously examines alternative mobility decisions and changes in the demographic determinants of residential mobility over the period 1940-80. Alternative mobility decisions are defined as the choice to move locally, to migrate within a state, or to migrate between states. Determinants of mobility include age, race, sex, and…