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Title: Internal Migration in the Young Adult Foreign-Born Population of the United States, 1995-2000
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Publication Year: 2007
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Abstract: This report calculates and examines patterns of foreign-born internal migration in the United States, especially rates of inter-state migration, focusing on the foreign-born population ages 16-44. It makes use of a special file of the 5 percent Public Use Microfiles (PUMs) from the 2000 Census to which information has been attached about the immigration status of the members of the foreign born-population based on information from the Legalized Population Survey (LPS) and the application of new estimating procedures. Substantial evidence emerges of recent changes in the geographical movements of the foreign born. For example, in the cases of three of the six states where immigrants formerly tended to concentrate (California, New York, and Illinois), more foreign-born persons left the state than entered during the 1995-2000 time interval. This tendency was even more pronounced among Mexican-born immigrants (in three of the five traditional Mexican states of destination, net internal migration was negative). Thus, the dispersal of the foreign-born throughout the country during the 1990s substantially involved the spread of Mexican immigrants in general and Mexican unauthorized migrants in particular. We also find evidence of very high rates of inter-state migration among unauthorized Chinese and Indian migrants, groups known in general to have high levels of education. The results suggest the development of a new pattern of growing inter-state migration among unauthorized migrant groups at both the high and low ends of the skill distribution. This pattern may result from a process of hyper-labor migration, or one that involves mostly relatively young males coming (or staying) in the United States for purposes of working and then moving to areas of labor demand to a greater degree than has usually been the case among ordinary labor migrants.
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Authors: Van Hook, Jennifer; Leach, Mark A.; Bean, Frank D.; Bachmeier, James
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Institution: Sabre Systems
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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