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Title: Migration Experience and Family Patterns in the 'Promised Land'

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 1998

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Abstract: The relationship between migration experience and family patterns among residents of the North and West [of the United States] is examined for three time periods--1940, 1970, and 1990. In general, an inverse association is observed between duration of residence in the North or West and family stability among African Americans. Although selective return migration to the South contributes to this association, it can account for only a minor part of the variation in family patterns by migration history. It is concluded that there is no evidence to support previous assumptions that southern migrants carried a dysfunctional family culture with them to the North and West, and thereby destabilized the nonsouthern African American family.

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Authors: Tolnay, Stewart E.

Periodical (Full): Journal of Family History

Issue: 1

Volume: 23

Pages: 68-89

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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