Human Migration

A Guide to Migration Literature in English 1955–1962

J. J. Mangalam, Cornelia Morgan

• Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780813155838
• eBook ISBN: 9780813186832
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism History & Theory
• Index: Literature

In this guide to the literature on human migration, J.J. Mangalam indexes over 2,000 titles that appeared in English from 1955 through 1962. An important feature of this work is the annotation of nearly 400 major articles on migration. These annotations provide information on the main focus of the study, the hypotheses tested, and any special measuring devices employed. The conclusions are also given, using the authors' words whenever possible. To facilitate the use of this guide the author has compiled an index that lists not only the subjects treated but also the major variables used in each abstracted study; thus the researcher who is interested in the use of certain variables can easily refer to the previous investigation of the influence of these factors upon migration. In a comprehensive introduction, Mangalam surveys the current state of studies of human migration and suggests a theoretical framework by which the vast amount of existing facts from different migration studies can be integrated and given meaning.

HUMAN MIGRATION

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

A number of bibliographies on migration literature already exist, but are out of date. Furthermore, most of them contain no annotations, and those that are annotated provide such limited information that they are of little help to prospective researchers in planning their projects. The present work is intended to fill these gaps to some extent. I say “to some extent” advisedly, for I have come to agree with Irene Taeuber’s warning, which accompanied her encouragement to undertake this enterprise: “The publications of bibliographies are always difficult. You accomplish a bit by never, never calling it a bibliography.” How true!

In the listing which follows items are arranged alphabetically in three sections, although for convenience of reference all items have been numbered consecutively and joint authors and issuing agencies are cross-referenced. The first section includes articles, chapters from books, and dissertations; the second, books and reports. The third contains material included in or listed in Industry and Labour, International Labour Review, and Population Index.

The first two sections include the documents on migration published under signed authorship and found in and through the following sources for the period from 1955 through 1962, which covers the time between the designing of the Beech Creek Study (1962) and a year somewhat arbitrarily set, but beyond which our resources did not permit us to proceed with the work of abstraction. We have reason to feel that the publications during this period are highly representative of the post-World War II studies in migration.

A.Journals

1.American Journal of Sociology

2.American Sociological Review

3.Human Relations

4.Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly

5.Population Studies

6.Rural Sociology

7.Social Forces

8.Social Problems

9.Sociology and Social Research

10.Southwestern Social Science Quarterly

B.Recent Bibliographic Sources

11.Gunther Beijer, Rural Migrants in Urban Setting (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1963), 327 pp. (Bibliographies at the end of each chapter.)

12.Cornell University, Bibliography of Researches in Rural Sociology, Rural Sociology Publications No. 52 (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, August, 1957). (Publications listed under the heading “Migration and Mobility.”)

13.Hope T. Elridge, The Materials of Demography: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959), 222 pp.

14.Research Group for European Migration Problems. Publications 10, 11, 12.

15. Henry S. Shryock, Jr., “Annotated List of Estimates of Net Migration, 1940-1950, By the Residual Method” Population Index, 25: 16-24 (January, 1959).

16.J. J. Spengler and Otis D. Duncan (eds.), Demographic Analysis: Selected Readings (Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1956), 819 pp. (Bibliographies under the headings, “International Distribution of Population and Migration” and “Internal Distribution and Migration.”)

17.Brinley Thomas, International Migration and Economic Development: A Trend Report and Bibliography (Paris: UNESCO, 1961), 85 pp.

18.U. S. Department of Agriculture (Economic and Statistical Analysis Division, Economic Research Service), Migration of Farm People: An Annotated Bibliography, 1946-1960 (Washington, D. C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, Miscellaneous Publication No. 954, October, 1963), 37 pp.

19.George L. Wilber and James S. Bang, Internal Migration in the U.S., 1940-1957: A List of References, Sociology and Rural Life, Series No. 10 (State College, Miss.: State University Agricultural Experiment Station, 1958).

C.Other General Reference Sources

20.Agricultural Index

21.Dissertation Abstracts

22.Education Index

23.International Index

24.Library of Congress Catalog of Books

25.Margaret I. King Library, University of Kentucky Card Catalog

26.Sociological Abstracts

All the articles listed in the above sources as well as in the footnotes of the articles themselves that deal with migration and related themes such as migratory labor and residential mobility were abstracted, except for those not easily accessible. Although a number of important journals might seem to be left out, we feel reasonably certain that the majority of the articles published on migration during the period are included in this book.

Books and most reports were not abstracted but simply listed in the second section. Those acquainted with general bibliographic sources for migration literature will notice the omission of Industry and Labour, International Labour Review, and especially, Population Index among the sources listed. We originally intended to exclude the migration entries in these from the present work and to make them available in a separate volume. But later considerations have shown that inclusion of these items would enhance the value of the present work as a reference volume. Hence they are included unannotated in the third section along with materials appearing under state and federal agencies in the United States and the United Nations and its agencies. Asterisks against entries in this section indicate that the original works are not in English, but they include summaries in English. The English title in each case is as given in the original source. Although some of the entries in this section do not seem directly related to the topic of migration, they are included because they are taken from the migration section of the originating documents.

We regret that articles in languages other than English, particularly the ones in the European languages, have not been included. Fortunately, Beijer’s Rural Migrants in Urban Setting compensates for this. The bibliographies given at the end of each chapter in that volume, although not annotated, are helpful to researchers with facility in European languages.

A brief mention should also be made of the method of abstraction. Initially, the abstracters were instructed to look for the following items: the universe and the sample studied, the general focus of the study, hypotheses tested, the major variables used for analysis, special measures (scales) employed, and the general conclusions of the study. Of course, all studies did not have all these items. An independent check of the reliabilit...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Introduction
• Human Migration
• Sources of Migration Literature
• Subject Index