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Return Migrations of African‐Americans to the South: Reclaiming a Land of Promise, Going Home, or Both?*
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Abstract Using samples of census data from the University of Minnesota Population Center's “Integrated Public Use Microdata Series” (IPUMS), we describe trends in African‐American migration to the South across recent decades, and explore the applicability of the concept of “return migration” to various demographic patterns. Our findings suggest that the return movement contains multiple migration streams involving African‐Americans of higher socio‐economic status (compared with both origin and destination populations) moving to both urban and rural destinations. These patterns represent clear differences from the earlier 20 th century's “Great Migration” of African‐Americans from South to North. The recent return migration streams suggest that the South may be replacing the North as a “land of promise” for some upwardly mobile African‐Americans, and may also reflect what Carol Stack (1996) has termed a “call to home” as a motivating factor shaping recent African‐American migration to the rural South.
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Return migration of African Americans to the southern USA can be interpreted as a relationship with the southern USA as an African 'American' place of origin, involving long historical ties and spiritual linkages connected to local churches.
“This return migration can be interpreted as a relationship that these African descendants have with the southern USA as an African 'American' place of origin, involving long historical ties and spiritual linkages connected to local churches.”
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- Falk, W. W., Hunt, L. L., & Hunt, M. O.
- Venue
- Rural Sociology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2004-12
- Volume
- 69
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 490-509
- ISSN
- 0036-0112
- 1549-0831
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- Language
- en
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