Longino C F, Serow W J
Department of Sociology, Wake Forest University.
J Gerontol. 1992 Jan;47(1):S38-43. doi: 10.1093/geronj/47.1.s38.
We examined return migrants age 60+ and argue from a regional analysis of their population characteristics that they fall into two primary types of movers: provincial return migrants and counterstream return migrants. When profiled as a whole, using 1980 census microdata, return migrants are older and more residentially dependent than nonreturn migrants. However, when regional variations are considered, this generalization breaks down. Perhaps return to one's state of birth is overemphasized in discussions of counterstream migration. Provincial return migration seems strongest in the South, with an interesting racial twist, and counterstream return migration seems strongest in the Northeast. Conceivably it is not a return to one's state of birth that is at issue among counterstream migrants, but rather a return from a Sunbelt retirement move to an earlier place of residence, regardless of whether one was born there.
我们研究了60岁及以上的返乡移民，并通过对其人口特征的区域分析认为，他们可分为两种主要的迁移类型：省级返乡移民和逆流返乡移民。从整体特征来看，利用1980年人口普查微观数据，返乡移民比未返乡移民年龄更大，且在居住方面更具依赖性。然而，考虑到区域差异时，这种普遍情况就不成立了。也许在逆流迁移的讨论中，回到出生州被过度强调了。省级返乡迁移在南方似乎最为显著，且存在有趣的种族差异，而逆流返乡迁移在东北部似乎最为显著。可以想象，对于逆流移民来说，关键问题并非回到出生州，而是从阳光地带的退休移居地回到更早的居住地，无论是否在该地出生。
