Migration Chain in a Medium City

Abstract

Generally, the process of relocation involves four types of changes in social status or life event: entering a higher level of school, obtaining or changing occupation (including transfer to another office), marriage, and retirement (Lewis, 1982; Clark, 1987). These four sequential movements account for most of an individual’s migration history. Some sort of spatial regularity is believed to exist in these sequential movements which respond to the socio-economic characteristics of individuals and families. In discussing these spatial chains, we must consider whether movements are confined to one urban/metropolitan area or not, that is, whether movements are recognized as intra-urban migration or interregional migration. Most interregional migration is due to one of the four changes in social status mentioned above. On the other hand, as Wolpert (1965) has suggested, most intra-urban migration is made to improve one’s so-called “place utility” (Brown and Longbrake, 1970).KeywordsMedium CitySuccessive MovementSpatial RegularityInterregional MigrationMigration ChainThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.