Migration In Britain Research Articles

Reviews of Books:Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women's Independent Migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850-1881 Wendy M. Gordon

Reviews of Books:Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women's Independent Migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850-1881 Wendy M. Gordon

<sc>Wendy M. Gordon</sc>. <italic>Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women's Independent Migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850–1881</italic>. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2002. Pp. x, 234. Cloth $68.50, paper $22.95

<sc>Wendy M. Gordon</sc>. <italic>Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women's Independent Migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850–1881</italic>. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2002. Pp. x, 234. Cloth $68.50, paper $22.95

WENDY M. GORDON, Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women's Independent Migration in England, Scotland and the United States, 1850–1881

WENDY M. GORDON, Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women's Independent Migration in England, Scotland and the United States, 1850–1881

Changing home, changing school: towards a research agenda on child migration

Summary The purpose of this contribution is to draw attention to a particular sub‐group of the population whose migration behaviour has been largely neglected by population geographers but whose activities are of sufficient extent and consequence to require closer investigation. The paper outlines some evidence of the magnitude and geography of internal and international child migration in Britain in the 1990s and argues that research might usefully focus on the relationship between child migration and the school system, and the implications of this interdependence for public policy.

Mortality and migration in Britain, first results from the British Household Panel Survey

This study investigates the extent to which current geographical variations in mortality are influenced by patterns of migration since birth. It is based on a longitudinal study of migrants which consists of a representative sample of 10264 British residents born after 1890 and enumerated as part of the British Household Panel Study in 1991. Between 1991 and 1996, 527 of the study members died and these deaths were analysed by area of residence at birth and in 1991 at both the regional and local district geographical scales. These were compared with findings from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study. The British Household Panel Survey sample replicates the results of work conducted on the Longitudinal Study which finds that geographical variations in age–sex standardised mortality ratios at the regional scale cannot be attributed to selective migration. However, for the British Household Panel Survey sample, the major geographical variations at district level could be attributed to selective migration. Geographical variations in mortality are not well understood. Restrictions on what it is possible to analyse in the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study may have resulted in the underestimation of the importance of local lifetime selective migration in producing the contemporary map of mortality variation across Britain. The British Household Panel Survey is a small, recent, but very flexible study, which can be used to investigate the effects of lifetime migration on mortality patterns for all of Britain. This first report of its results on mortality shows that it produces findings which accord with the much larger Longitudinal Study, but which can be taken further to show that selective migration over the whole life-course at the local level does appear to have significantly altered the geographical pattern of mortality seen in Britain today.

Phenology and the changing pattern of bird migration in Britain

Britain has a huge mass of data on the timing of bird migration, although much of this remains in a form that is inaccessible for immediate scientific study. In this paper, I undertake a preliminary examination of data from a number of historical and current sources. Among these are the Marsham family records from Norfolk, dating back to 1736, and post-World War II records from coastal bird observatories. The majority of the examined time series displayed a negative relationship to temperature indicating a tendency for the earlier arrival of the studied birds in warmer springs. In addition to temperature effects, trends through time and some sampling effects (through population size) have become apparent. Identification and curation of data sources and further analysis is still required to produce a clearer picture of climate effects on bird migration timing and on subsequent bird population dynamics.

Longer distance commuting as a substitute for migration in Britain: a review of trends, issues and implications.

"Drawing on analyses of commuting data from secondary sources as well as on selected results from a research project on long-distance commuting in Britain, this article investigates the extent to which, and why, households may choose to substitute longer distance commuting for migration. Reasons for long-distance weekly commuting, and associated advantages and disadvantages from individual, household and employer perspectives, are outlined. The evidence points to increasing complexity in home and working lives, with important implications for housing, transport and human resource management policies, as well as for family life."

Service class migration in England and Wales, 1980-81: identifying gender-specific mobility patterns.

"Gendered patterns of service class migration were observed between the metropolitan counties and regional remainders within England and Wales using 1981 Census data. Observed flows were analysed in terms of the north-south migration divide and counterurbanization, and were compared to estimates derived from gravity models. More service class men than expected moved from metropolitan to non-metropolitan areas and between non-metropolitan areas. Women were less likely to move into non-metropolitan areas and were especially attracted to metropolitan destinations, notably London. These women were also more mobile within the South than service class men. It is suggested that these contrasting patterns reflect the differential geography of women's employment." (SUMMARY IN FRE AND GER)

Population Change and Migration in Britain since 1981: Evidence for Continuing Deconcentration

Recent trends in spatial distribution and internal migration in Britain are reviewed using small-area statistics from the 1981 and 1991 censuses. "The results indicate that the differentials in the population growth rate between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan Britain narrowed somewhat between the 1970s and the 1980s, but the negative relationship between urban status and population change remained very clear. Moreover, contrary to the experience of the U.S.A. and a number of European countries, in the mid-1980s Britain saw a resurgence of nonmetropolitan growth which had widespread impact across the country."

Socioeconomic Characteristics of Interregional Migrants in England and Wales, 1939–71

"Data from the Longitudinal Study (LS) of the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys are used to examine patterns of regional migration in England and Wales between 1939 and 1971. The source of information on region in 1939 is from a national population register established shortly after the start of the Second World War." The results suggest that "overall, 18% of persons in the analysis moved between regions from 1939 to 1971. Migrants tended to be socioeconomically advantaged compared with nonmigrants. Moreover, those moving to regions where the nonmigrants were the most advantaged, were themselves the most advantaged of the migrants. This paper illustrates a new source of data on long-term migration that deserves further exploration."

Modelling the Relationship between Tenure and Migration in England and Wales

"A rarely utilized source of migration data from the 1981 [U.K.] Census is used to examine the mobility patterns of migrants resident in different [housing] tenures within England and Wales at the regional and county level. A Poisson regression approach is used to compare the effects of distance on migration propensities for those moving into owner-occupied housing, council housing and privately rented housing. The existing literature suggests that migration should be most restricted by distance for council tenants and least restricted for private renters....Local variations in the effects of distance decay on migration for each of the three migrant streams are examined. Both a north-south and a metropolitan non-metropolitan migration divide are clearly evident when migrant flows are disaggregated by tenure at the destination."

Regional Migration in Britain: An Analysis of Gross Flows Using NHS Central Register Data

The authors extend the use of a hiring function model whereby job seekers are matched with vacancies to the analysis of regional migration in Britain. Annual data from the National Health Service Central Register for 1975-1989 are used to "show that unemployment and vacancy rates distance and an index of similarities across regions in industry based employment composition help determine migration flows across regions. The hiring function approach offers a consistent way of modelling gross and net flows and helps explain both the high level of gross relative to net flows and the tendency for migration to fall in a recession even when unemployment differentials widen." (EXCERPT)

Occupational Structure, Wages, and Migration in Late Nineteenth-Century England and Wales

The relationships among occupational structure wages and internal migration in England and Wales in the second half of the nineteenth century are analyzed. The author concludes that socioeconomic inequalities among districts provide the major explanation for migration. (ANNOTATION)

Migration in a Mature Economy: Emigration and Internal Migration in England and Wales, 1861-1900.

Migration in a Mature Economy: Emigration and Internal Migration in England and Wales, 1861-1900.

Migration in a Mature Economy: Emigration and Internal Migration in England and Wales, 1861-1900

Migration in a Mature Economy: Emigration and Internal Migration in England and Wales, 1861-1900

Book Review: Migration in a Mature Economy: Emigration and Internal Migration in England and Wales 1861–1900

Book Review: Migration in a Mature Economy: Emigration and Internal Migration in England and Wales 1861–1900

Reviews

M. W. Barley. Houses and history.Frank T. Melton. Sir Robert Clayton and the origins of English deposit banking, 1658‐1685.John Rule. The labouring classes in early industrial England, 1750‐1850.Clive Trebilcock. Phoenix Assurance and the development of British assurance, Vol. I, 1782‐1870.J. A. Cantrell. James Nasmyth and the Bridgewater Foundry: a study of entrepreneurship in the early engineering industryAndrew Porter. Victorian shipping and imperial policy: Donald Currie, the Castle Line and South Africa.Roger J. P. Kain. An atlas and index of the tithe files of mid‐nineteenth‐century England and Wales.Anne Digby. Madness, morality and medicine: a study of the York Retreat, 1796‐1914.Dudley Baines. Migration in a mature economy: emigration and internal migration in England and Wales, 1861‐1901.Mark Blaug. Economic history and the history of economics.Leslie Hannah. Inventing retirement: the development of occupational pensions in Britain.Peter Mathias and Stuart Bruchey (Eds.). British economic history. An eighteen‐volume series of theses.Alfred W. Crosby. Ecological imperialism: the biological expansion of Europe, 900‐1900.Barbara A. Hanawalt (Ed.). Women and work in preindustrial Europe.A. J. Coale and S. C. Watkins (Eds.). The decline of fertility in Europe.Anne Lombard‐Jourdan. Aux origines de Paris: la genèse de la rive droite jusqu'en 1223.Catharina Lis. Social change and the labouring poor: Antwerp, 1770‐1860.Gérard Delille. Famille et propriété dans la Royaume de Naples, XVe‐XIXc Siècle.Carl G. Gustavson. The small giant: Sweden enters the industrial era.Karl‐Gustav Hildebrand. Expansion, crisis, reconstruction: the Swedish Match Company, 1917‐1939Silvana Malle. The economic organization of war communism, 1918‐21.Arcadius Kahan. The plow, the hammer and the knout: an economic history of eighteenth‐century Russia.David W. Galenson. Traders, planters and slaves, market behaviour in early English America.Oliver A. Rink. Holland on the Hudson: an economic and social history of Dutch New York.Charles Bergquist. Labor in Latin America: comparative essays on Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, and Colombia.Yen‐P'ing Hao. The commercial revolution in nineteenth‐century China: the rise of Sino‐western mercantile capitalism.Kesaji Kobayashi and Hidemasa Morikawa (Eds.). Development of managerial enterprise.David Coleman and Roger Schofield (Eds.). The state of population theory: forward from Malthus.R. I. Rotberg and T. K. Rabb (Eds.). Population and economy: population and history from the traditional to the modern world.Herman Van Der Wee. Prosperity and upheaval: the world economy, 1945‐1980.

Migration in a Mature Economy: Emigration and Internal Migration in England and Wales, 1861-1901.

Migration in a Mature Economy: Emigration and Internal Migration in England and Wales, 1861-1901.

Migration in a Mature Economy: Emigration and Internal Migration in England and Wales, 1861-1900

List of tables List of figures Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: the scope of the study 2. Issues in the history of European emigration, 1840-1914 3. The characteristics of British emigrants before 1914 4. The estimation of migration by county of birth 5. Return migration to Britain, 1860-1914 6. The birthplace of English and Welsh emigrants, 1861-1900 7. English and Welsh emigrants in the 1880s and 1890s 8. Emigration and urban growth 9. Rural-urban stage emigration, 1861-1900 10. Wales and the Atlantic economy, 1861-1914 A summary of conclusions Appendices Bibliography Index.

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:D. MORRIS Immigration: The Beleaguered Bureaucracy.International Migration in the Pacific, Sri Lanka and Thailand (Asian Population Studies).ETRANGERS, IMMIGRES, FRANCAIS Vingtihe Sikcle (numero sptcial) (1 985)7, 230 p.ROTHERMUND, D and J. SIMON (eds), Education and the integration of ethnic minorities.YOUNG, CH. The Turkish and Yugoslav Press. A survey of content and readership.BHACHU, P. Twice Migrants: East African Sikh Settlers in Britain.BAINES, D. Migration in a Mature Economy: Emigration and Internal Migration in England and Wales, 1861–1900.WEAVER, J.W. and DEEGEE, L. (Compilers). Immigrants from Great Britain and Ireland: A Guide to Archival and Manuscript Sources in North America.