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Title: It is not Just the Economy: Declining Migration and the Rise of Secular Rootedness

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: Americans have always been viewed, both by themselves and by others, as a migrant society. However, migration rates have reached record lows: only 1.6% of Americans moved from onestate to another in 2009, and only 3.7% moved from one county to another. This research conducts a decomposition of the change in migration rates between 1999 and 2009 usingdata from the Current Population Survey. The analysis concludes that about 63% of the decline in migration rates between 1999 and 2009 can be attributed to the direct effects of the economic crisis that began in 2007, and another 17% of the decline can be attributed to demographic changes (e.g. the aging of the population) but that the remaining 20% of the decrease in migration is due to a decline in migration behavior, or increased rootedness,that applies to all demographic categories. The discussion focuses on the implications of the universal, or secular, rise in rootedness for migration studies.

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Authors: Cooke, Thomas J.

Periodical (Full): Population, Space and Place

Issue: 3

Volume: 17

Pages: 193-203

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Migration and Immigration

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