In the past, American Indians were drawn to the Southwest for essentially the same economic reasons as other people. Today, most of the nearly 40,000 out-of-state Indians residing in New Mexico came for much the same reasons--employment, education, and health opportunities. (NQ)

Developed heuristic model of retirement migration process and explored model using survey data from 586 migrants to western North Carolina. Investigated five distinct groups. Findings suggest that, before people start to seriously consider or plan for retirement move, they have remote or distant visions of retired life in more attractive…

This dissertation is a study of diverse linguistic resources and contentious identity politics among indigenous Amazonian Kichwas in the city of Tena, Ecuador. Tena is a rapidly developing Amazonian provincial capital city with a long history of interethnic and interlinguistic contact. In recent decades, the course of indigenous Kichwa identity…

Background: Informal relationships are central to conceptualisations of quality of life. Deinstitutionalisation studies consistently suggest a trend of increased contact with family and friends by people with intellectual disability (ID) following relocation from an institution to the community. In this study, changes in the nature of the informal…

This article describes aspects of the relocation of schools from the Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip ("Gush Katif") after implementation of the disengagement plan in summer 2005. The study describes "successful" and "unsuccessful" relocated schools in the eyes of parents and the impact of the schools' new…

This report is divided into seven sections. Section one deals with the design of the study which includes the basic questions asked, the nature of the data collected in order to answer these questions, and the samples upon which the statistical analyses are performed. Sections two and three are concerned with the matter of social and economic…

This article examines the effects of geriatric relocation on mortality rates. An experimental-control model was utilized with a sample of 529 patients undergoing relocation and 453 patients not experiencing a move. (Author)

Describes the human and socioeconomic aspects of political refugee problems before and after World War II. Explains factors that caused flows of forced migration throughout the world. (Author/MK)

Overviews the problems surrounding the arrival of new waves of non-Western refugees to the countries of Western Europe. (MK)

Presents information on numbers and legal status of recent Cuban and Haitian refugees. Summarizes presidential recommendations for the admission to the United States and resettlement of these refugees. (ST)

Examined influence of migration on sexual behavior. Data from national probability sample of single females, ages 15-19 (n=1,287) revealed that moving was positively related to premarital sex. Migration may lower control through such mechanisms as weakening community bonds, decreasing supply and demand of parental supervision, and increasing…

Purpose: With increasing interest in overseas business expansion, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, expatriate management, including repatriation readjustments, has become a critical international human resource development (HRD) issue for multinational enterprises (MNEs). This empirical study therefore aims to investigate the use of HRD…