Migration Patterns of Negroes from a Rural Northeastern Mississippi Community

Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from US Mass Migration

“…Reassuringly, our estimates are essentially unchanged when adding several covariates. We also estimate strong network effects in certain locations, like Rock County, Wisconsin, for which qualitative work supports our findings (Bell, 1933;Rubin, 1960;Wilkerson, 2010). This paper makes three contributions.…”

The Effect of Social Connectedness on Crime: Evidence from the Great Migration

“…Evidence on these effects is of independent interest and would improve our understanding of the negative effects on crime documented in this paper. 1955-1960 1965-1970 1975-1980 1985-1990 1995-2000 (1) (2) (3) (4) 19601965197019751980198519901995 Model 1: baseline specification 1960196519701980198519901995 Model 1: baseline specification .6…”

“….8 1900191019301940195019601970198019902010 Notes: Figure plots the share of individuals age 14-17 who are living in the North, Midwest, or West regions who were born in the South or live in the same household as an adult born in the South. Sources: IPUMS Decennial Census (1900Census ( -2000 and American Community Survey (2001-2010)…”

“…Initial migrants, most of whom moved in the 1910s, chose their destination primarily in response to economic opportunity. Mi-grants who worked for an employer in search of labor and were well connected in their birth town linked friends, family, and acquaintances to jobs and shelter in the North, sometimes leading to persistent migration flows from birth town to destination city (Rubin, 1960;Gottlieb, 1987). Describing this behavior shortly after the start of the Great Migration, Scott (1920) wrote, "The tendency was to continue along the first definite path.…”

A Matrix of Human Movement

“…Similarly Morton Rubin, in a study of mobility of Negroes from rural Mississippi, has traced a chain of anomalous destinations in Beloit, Wisconsin to its genesis as a pool of recruited laborers during World War 1. [38] But perhaps the most prominent example of allocatees in American settlement history is that of the Chinese. Following in the wake of decades of movement to Southeast Asia, Chinese contract labor from South China began to flow to the Western Hemisphere in the nineteenth century.…”