Return migrations of African-Americans to the south: Reclaiming a land of promise, going home, or both?

Rural Sociology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 490-509

  Falk, William W ^a   Hunt, Larry L ^a   Hunt, Matthew O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; INTERNAL MIGRATION; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; RETURN MIGRATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 24044448221     PISSN: 00360112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1526/0036011042722831     Document Type: Article

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