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Population Change and Rural SocietySocial Integration Among Older in-Migrants in Nonmetropolitan Retirement Destination Counties

Population Change and Rural Society: Social Integration Among Older in-Migrants in... CHAPTER 8 SOCIAL INTEGRATION AMONG OLDER IN-MIGRANTS IN NONMETROPOLITAN RETIREMENT DESTINATION COUNTIES: Establishing New Ties NINA GLASGOW AND DAVID L. BROWN INTRODUCTION Migration is closely associated with various life course transitions, and, as Longino (1990) and others have shown, retirement and migration are frequently linked. While the 2000 CPS showed that older persons tend to have a relatively low propensity to migrate (only 2.0 percent crossed county lines from 1995 to 2000 compared with 8.6 percent of persons aged 30–34), when they do move, they are more likely to move to nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) destinations. As a consequence, older persons have made a positive contribution to nonmetro popu- lation change in each decade since the 1960s. Regardless of the overall direction of metro to nonmetro migration—positive in the 1970s and 1990s and negative in the 1980s—more older persons have moved to nonmetro areas than in the oppo- site direction in each decade since the 1970s (Fulton et al., 1997). Counties with higher than average net in-movement of older persons are among the most rapidly and consistently growing types of nonmetro area. During the 1990s, for example, nonmetro counties with 15 percent or higher net in-migration of persons aged 60 or http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Population Change and Rural SocietySocial Integration Among Older in-Migrants in Nonmetropolitan Retirement Destination Counties

Part of the The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis Book Series (volume 16)
Editors: Kandel, William A.; Brown, David L.
Glasgow, Nina; Brown, David L.
Population Change and Rural Society — Jan 1, 2006
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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer 2006
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978-1-4020-3911-9
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177 –196
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10.1007/1-4020-3902-6_8
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CHAPTER 8 SOCIAL INTEGRATION AMONG OLDER IN-MIGRANTS IN NONMETROPOLITAN RETIREMENT DESTINATION COUNTIES: Establishing New Ties NINA GLASGOW AND DAVID L. BROWN INTRODUCTION Migration is closely associated with various life course transitions, and, as Longino (1990) and others have shown, retirement and migration are frequently linked. While the 2000 CPS showed that older persons tend to have a relatively low propensity to migrate (only 2.0 percent crossed county lines from 1995 to 2000 compared with 8.6 percent of persons aged 30–34), when they do move, they are more likely to move to nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) destinations. As a consequence, older persons have made a positive contribution to nonmetro popu- lation change in each decade since the 1960s. Regardless of the overall direction of metro to nonmetro migration—positive in the 1970s and 1990s and negative in the 1980s—more older persons have moved to nonmetro areas than in the oppo- site direction in each decade since the 1970s (Fulton et al., 1997). Counties with higher than average net in-movement of older persons are among the most rapidly and consistently growing types of nonmetro area. During the 1990s, for example, nonmetro counties with 15 percent or higher net in-migration of persons aged 60 or

Published: Jan 1, 2006

Keywords: Formal Organization; Social Integration; Social Participation; Origin Community; Destination Choice

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