Second-Generation Outcomes of the Great Migration.

ABSTRACT: The mass migration of African Americans out of the South during the first two-thirds of the twentieth century represents one of the most significant internal migration flows in U.S.

History

Those undertaking the Great Migration left the South in search of a better life, and their move transformed the cultural, social, and political dynamics of African American life specifically and U.S. society more generally. Recent research offers conflicting evidence regarding the migrants' success in translating their geographic mobility into economic mobility. Due in part to the lack of a large body of longitudinal data, almost all studies of the Great Migration have focused on the migrants themselves, usually over short periods of their working lives. Using longitudinally linked census data, w

SUBMITTER: Alexander JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7462056 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature