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Abou, Selim – 1977
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…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, VA. – 1976
This refugee alert bulletin provides information relevant to Indochinese refugees in the United States. General news of the Indochinese Clearinghouse is provided, along with a partial list of the addresses and phone numbers of refugee assistance centers. Also listed are Vietnamese language publications, mostly journals and newspapers, available…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Bilingual Education, Bulletins, Cambodian
Eisenberg, Michael – 1975
The following four hypotheses were tested: (1) nonmetropolitan areas with the highest percentages employed in industry in 1960 will experience the greatest inmigration between 1965-70; (2) those with a high percentage employed in agriculture will experience the lowest amounts of inmigration; (3) those areas with small farm size and low farm income…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Census Figures, Correlation, Distance
Yinger, John – 1975
Racial prejudice is said to influence strongly the locational decisions of households in urban areas. This paper introduces racial prejudice into a model of an urban area and derives several results about residential location. A previously developed long-run model of an urban area adds a locational dimension to a model of the housing market under…
Descriptors: Black Housing, Consumer Economics, Decision Making, Economic Factors
Wiens, A. Emerson – 1973
To generate information relative to job mobility which could be helpful to occupational administrators in hiring and meeting in-service education needs, questionnaires were sent to a two percent representative sampling of occupational educators in the U.S. The sample was divided by type of school (regular and comprehensive, secondary and…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Career Change, Faculty Mobility, Job Satisfaction
Schultz, T. Paul – 1970
The rural-urban migration pattern in Colombia during the last 25 years has resulted in a population increase in urban areas from 30 to 52 percent of the total population. This study explores the causes of internal migration. Migration rates are estimated for various groups in the population to clarify who migrates and to where. A model of…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Cross Cultural Studies, Demography, Living Standards
Kleibrink, Michael C.; Ruesink, David C. – 1971
The problem of moving workers from one community to another is not a new topic, but it is a little studied one. Much research has been done on the demographic characteristics of migrants, but there are very few studies of the sociopsychological characteristics of migration. In this study, the importance placed by the relocated individual on…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Job Training, Labor Force Development, Mexican Americans
Warner, Rachel, Ed. – 1995
This dual-language (Portuguese and English) collection of autobiographical writing by refugees from Angolan children and young adults living in Britain is illustrated with photographs and children's drawings and includes comprehensive country introductions. In the collection, young people give their accounts of migration and explore how their…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Area Studies, Childrens Writing

Gaviria, Moises; Wintrob, Ronald – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1982
Fifty Peruvian physicians who decided to remain in the United States after postgraduate training disclose professional, economic and familial reasons for their decision. Fears of being unable to obtain a position that is professionally stimulating and that pays enough to support the family dominate the decision. (LC)
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Employment Opportunities, Family Influence, Foreign Medical Graduates

Knight, John – Journal of Rural Studies, 1994
This case study of Wakayama Prefecture focuses on the postwar Japanese government's efforts to facilitate administration of rural areas via "town-making." School consolidation is among the means used to fabricate a new sense of social cohesion from a patchwork of depopulated and aging villages. The goal is to promote a national modern…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Centralization, Change Strategies, Community Change
Stack, Carol – 1996
This book relates the story of urban Black Americans choosing to return "home" to the rural South. The book is based on research in rural areas in North and South Carolina, considered the top nonmetropolitan areas for Black Americans moving south. By 1975, the U.S. Census Bureau released the first numbers suggesting that the exodus of…
Descriptors: Black Family, Blacks, Children, Community Action
Harik, Elsa Marston – 1987
The history of Lebanese immigrants to the United States is reviewed, and the contributions of this ethnic group to the American fabric are explored in this book which is part of a series for children. For at least 1,500 years Lebanon was a sort of haven for religious sects that would not have been allowed such freedom elsewhere. As a result, the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Childrens Literature, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education
Gold, Stephen J. – 1990
The situation of Jews who have immigrated to the United States from the former Soviet Union is reviewed, and information is presented to help teachers of immigrant children. The onset of "glasnost" has made Soviets the largest refugee population to enter the United States in recent years. Thousands more are expected in the near future.…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Children, Educational Experience
Wollenberg, Charles – 1989
California has one of the most diverse societies on earth. Ethnic minorities comprise at least one-third of the state's people, and the society is becoming ever more diverse. It is estimated that by about the year 2010, California will have no majority ethnic group. The historical development of this diversity is traced from the arrival of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences
White, Michael J. – 1988
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…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Census Figures, Ethnic Distribution, Ethnic Groups