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Title: Explaining Black Southern Migrants' Advantage in Family Stability: The Role of Selective Migration

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Publication Year: 2001

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Abstract: Recent findings show that black southern-born migrants to the north exhibit greater family stability than northern natives do. However, this 'migrant advantage' remains to be explained. Using data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, this study investigates the extent to which it can be explained by selective migration. Findings reveal that migrants of all kinds, regardless of their origins or destinations, are more family-stable than are nonmigrants. Furthermore, selective migration of this sort explains much of the southern migrants' advantage with respect to family stability. Findings also suggest that the residual southern migrant advantage left unexplained by selective migration is unlikely to have resulted from any cultural differences between the north and the south.

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Authors: Wilson, Thomas C.

Periodical (Full): Social Forces

Issue: 2

Volume: 80

Pages: 555-571

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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