Migration in Britain

Fielding, Tony

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“…Structural factors are a difficult concept, ranging from long‐wave economic, social, and demographic change (e.g. the second demographic transition and the transition from Fordism) to conjunctural forces such as the 2008–2009 recession and the vagaries of national social and economic policies (Coulter et al ., ; Coulter & Scott, ; see also Fielding, ). It is not easy conceptually to separate individual moving desires from structural and wider social developments because these developments could construct the desire to move or to stay put.…”

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“…Globalisation theory also identifies mobility, migration, and related population flows as being central to the constitution of the global (Robins, ). Furthermore, occupational trends in western societies might be assumed to raise migration rates because the composition of the labour market has been shifting away from blue‐collar manual work and becoming increasingly skewed towards higher‐skilled ‘service class’ groups with a long tradition of greater geographical mobility (Green, ; Fielding, ).…”

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Are People Changing Address Less? An Analysis of Migration within England and Wales, 1971-2011, by Distance of Move

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Shuttleworth

2016

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Expectations of migration and mobility steadily increasing in the longer term, which have a long currency in migration theory and related social science, are at odds with the latest US research showing a marked decline in internal migration rates. This paper reports the results of research that investigates whether England and Wales have experienced any similar change in recent decades. Using the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (ONS-LS) of linked census records, it examines the evidence provided by its 10-year migration indicator, with particular attention to a comparison of the first and latest decades available, 1971-1981 and 2001-2011. This suggests that, as in the USA, there has been a marked reduction in the level of shorterdistance (less than 10km) moving that has involved almost all types of people. In contrast to this and to US experience, however, the propensity of people to make longer-distance address changes between decennial censuses has declined much less, largely corroborating the results of a companion study tracking the annual trend in rates of between-area migration since the 1970s (Champion and Shuttleworth, 2016).

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Are People Changing Address Less? An Analysis of Migration within England and Wales, 1971-2011, by Distance of Move

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Shuttleworth

2016

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“…Migration research has been and continues to be an extremely vibrant element of the social sciences in Britain (refer to, most notably, Champion & Fielding, , Stillwell et al ., , Fielding, , and Smith et al ., ). Interest in overall rates of migration appears to have been strongest in the earlier decades of migration recording, following the Census's introduction of a question on address one year ago in 1961 and the inception of the continuous monitoring of migration using the NHSCR in 1971.…”

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“…They have taken on even greater salience with the rise of the New Mobilities Paradigm and the ‘mobilities turn’ that is said to be transforming the social sciences in an era of globalisation (Cresswell, ; Hannam et al ., ; Sheller & Urry, ). Additionally, there are other grounds for the assumption that migration and mobility will increase over the long term, most notably shifts in population composition towards the higher‐skilled and more educated ‘service class’ groups that have traditionally experienced the greatest geographical mobility (Green, ; Fielding, ; Green & Shuttleworth, ).…”

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“…More recent migration research has been dominated by qualitative studies of migration behaviour and quantitative studies of the geography of migration flows, the latter most commonly in terms of the role of net migration in population redistribution (refer to reviews by Fielding, and Smith et al ., ). An exception is the work of Lomax et al .…”

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Is Longer-Distance Migration Slowing? An Analysis of the Annual Record for England and Wales since the 1970s

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Shuttleworth

2016

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This paper is prompted by the widespread acceptance that the rates of inter-county and inter-state migration have been falling in the USA and sets itself the task of examining whether this decline in migration intensities is also the case in the UK. It uses annual inter-area migration matrices available for England and Wales since the 1970s by broad age group. The main methodological challenge, arising from changes in the geography of health areas for which the inter-area flows are given, is addressed by adopting the lowest common denominator of 80 areas. Care is also taken to allow for the effect of economic cycles in producing short-term fluctuations on migration rates and to isolate the effect of a sharp rise in rates for 16-24 year olds in the 1990s, which is presumed to be related to the expansion of higher education. The findings suggest that, unlike for the USA, there has not been a substantial decline in the intensity of internal migration between the first two decades of the study period and the second two. If there has been any major decline in the intensity of address changing in England and Wales, it can only be for the within-area moves that this time series does not cover. This latter possibility is examined in a companion paper using a very different data set (Champion and Shuttleworth, 2016).

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Population Mobility and Regional Development

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2017

International Encyclopedia of Geography

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Following a brief account of the way that the concepts of population mobility and regional development are used in this paper, a causal flow model of the key relationships is introduced. The main focus is the multiple ways in which regional economic development affects interregional joband income-related migration. The arguments presented are supported by evidence from Europe (notably the UK and France) and from East Asia (notably China and Japan). While both short-term processes (business-cycle effects) and long-term (deep-structural) inequalities in job prospects and living standards are found to be significant in explaining migration flows, medium-term economic restructuring processes are judged to be particularly importantand are probably the least well understood.

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Migration in Britain

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Are People Changing Address Less? An Analysis of Migration within England and Wales, 1971-2011, by Distance of Move

Are People Changing Address Less? An Analysis of Migration within England and Wales, 1971-2011, by Distance of Move

Is Longer-Distance Migration Slowing? An Analysis of the Annual Record for England and Wales since the 1970s

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