The analysis suggests that for both males and females moving, whether voluntary or involuntary, decreases formal organizational participation, has little effect upon informal social relations either within or outside the neighborhood of residence, relatively small impact upon how respondents perceive their neighbors, and little effect upon the…

The author relates the story of her parents' outmigration in 1955 from West Virginia to Chicago and their consequent assimilation experiences. The family's problems with self-identity, group identity, discrimination, hostility, cultural differences, and language differences are described and evaluated against the literature, economic factors, and…

The movements of 2,271 residents of public and community residential facilities for the developmentally disabled were analyzed. In a 1-year period, 8.5 percent of the residents moved, and most moves featured greater integration into the community. Among moved subjects, 3 dimensions accounted for 62 percent of placement status variance: ability,…

This study, the result of interviews conducted in Quebec and Montreal in the spring of 1975, deals with the adaptation, integration, and acculturation of the Lebanese immigrants in Quebec since the end of World War II. This new immigration wave is contrasted with the one that took place around 1880. Generally speaking, the situation in both the…

This study attempts to measure the degree of assimilation exhibited by various immigrant groups, as indicated by their residential patterns. Ecological models of assimilation hold that immigrants are highly segregated from the majority population upon arrival, but that segregation declines with time in a process of residential assimilation. The…