Environment as a Multifaceted Migration Motive: Meanings and Interpretations Among a Group of Young Adults in Sweden

Vilhelmson, Bertil; Thulin, Eva

doi:10.1002/psp.1924

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“…Environmental factors have also shown to be important when considering young adults' residential mobility. The broad category of those reasons includes changing living environment (i.e., moving closer to the nature or to the big city), moving away from the current life situation, and moves motivated by personal development (Geist & McManus, ; Lundholm et al, ; Morrison & Clark, ; Niedomysl, ; Vilhelmson & Thulin, ).…”

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Short‐ and long‐distance moves of young adults during the transition to adulthood in Britain

Pelikh

Kulu

2017

Population Space and Place

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This paper examines spatial mobility of young adults in England and Wales in the 1990s and the 2000s. We investigate short-and long-distance moves of young people by cohort and gender adjusted for individuals' socio-economic characteristics and changes in other life domains. We study how much employment, partnership, and family changes explain variation in spatial mobility across birth cohorts and between males and females. We apply multistate event history analysis to data from the British Household Panel Survey. We move beyond a single-event approach and analyse moving trajectories of young adults. The results show that the youngest cohort (born in [1985][1986][1987][1988][1989][1990] leaves the parental home later than the two older cohorts (born in 1974-1979 and 1980-1984), but once they leave the parental nest, they exhibit elevated levels of spatial mobility. We find that females leave the parental home earlier than males; however, there are no gender differences in the levels of higher order moves. By contrast, socio-economic differences in spatial mobility are persistent; young people from advantaged backgrounds are spatially more mobile than those who come from disadvantaged families. Changes in educational enrolment and level, partnership status, and economic activity explain only little of the differences in spatial mobility across cohorts and between males and females suggesting also the importance of other motives behind the moves. The results are similar for short-and long-distance moves, although the risk levels are higher for the former. KEYWORDSBritish Household Panel Survey, England and Wales, event history analysis, spatial mobility, transition to adulthood, young adults

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Section: Spatial Mobility Over the Early Stage Of The Life Coursementioning

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Short‐ and long‐distance moves of young adults during the transition to adulthood in Britain

Pelikh

Kulu

2017

Population Space and Place

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“…Finally, some scholars have lately noted that environmental motives increasingly compete with the abovementioned economic and social reasons for interregional migration (Lundholm, 2007 ; Bonasia and Napolitano, 2012 ; Vilhelmson and Thulin, 2016 ). Environmental motives could include the specific qualities of a potential destination, such as the natural setting of the place or its social and cultural environment 2 .…”

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“…Sometimes, a migration decision echoes a wish to simply change living environment(Vilhelmson and Thulin, 2016).Frontiers in Sociology | www.frontiersin.org…”

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Selectivity and Internal Migration: A Study of Refugees' Dispersal Policy in Sweden

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Following the intensified waves of refugees entering Europe, dispersal policies for newly arrived refugees have been proposed to speed up their integration and to share the financial burden across and within the EU countries. The effectiveness of dispersal policies depends, among other factors, on the extent to which refugees tend to stay in the initial location they are assigned to live in, and on their patterns of self-selectivity during subsequent moves of internal migration. Economic theories of migration suggest that economic immigrants are self-selected to destinations based on their abilities. Highly skilled and motivated people tend to migrate to labor markets with broader opportunity structures, while less capable individuals choose markets that are more sheltered. We use a quasi-experimental design to examine the extent to which those theories are first, applicable to refugees as well, and second, explain their self-sorting into local labor markets at destination. We focus on a refugee cohort that came to Sweden during the period when the so-called "Whole-Sweden" policy was in effect. This policy was designed to reduce the concentration of refugees in the larger cities by randomly deploying asylum seekers across Sweden. After being assigned to an initial location, refugees could move freely within Sweden. We use individual register data from Statistics Sweden to study all refugees who arrived in Sweden during 1990-1993, and we follow each one of them during an 8-year period. We use discrete-time survival analysis (complementary log-log models) in order to assess the effects of abilities on the destination choices of refugees, and individual fixed-effect models to assess the effects of internal migration on their income. Destinations were defined on the basis of the economic opportunities they offer. The results suggest that refugees' education levels are related to major differences in their destination choices. Highly skilled refugees were more likely to migrate to labor markets with a wide structure of opportunities relative to less skilled refugees. In addition, all relocation choices had positive effects on refugees' income growth.

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Environment as a Multifaceted Migration Motive: Meanings and Interpretations Among a Group of Young Adults in Sweden

Cited by 2 publications

References 41 publications

Short‐ and long‐distance moves of young adults during the transition to adulthood in Britain

Short‐ and long‐distance moves of young adults during the transition to adulthood in Britain

Selectivity and Internal Migration: A Study of Refugees' Dispersal Policy in Sweden

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