Poverty catchments: Migration, residential mobility, and population turnover in impoverished rural Illinois communities

Rural Sociology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 440-462

  Foulkes, Matt ^a   Newbold, K Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULATION MIGRATION; POVERTY DETERMINANT; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; RURAL AREA; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL POPULATION;

ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 53749104406     PISSN: 00360112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1526/003601108785766525     Document Type: Article

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