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Wilbur Zelinsky's 1971 paper in Geographical Review entitled the 'Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition' was both forward-looking and offered innovative ideas regarding human geographic mobility. One of the most interesting aspects of the paper was a set of predictions for mobility in a 'future superadvanced society'. Many of these predictions have now come to pass, including a general decline in international and internal migration and residential change, the increasing regulation of migration - especially internally, and the possibility that the widespread adoption of information and communication technologies has impacted human geographic mobility. Hence, this essay looks at the mobility transition not as an obsolete frame of reference but as a prescient, pliable, and adaptable framework which not only informs the study of human geographic mobility today but also, perhaps, even into the future. Keywords: migration, population geography, modernization, regulation, communications., [Wilbur Zelinsky is] as probably as close as one can come to being a true academic provocateur,... weaving an understanding of our habitable world while posing questions for the rest [...]

Immigrant settlement patterns in Los Angeles are studied to highlight the view of spatial assimilation research from individuals in neighborhood to relationships between individuals in households in their neighborhood context. It is suggested that clustered residential partnership increases the probability of living in a cluster tract, although for some groups the effect is not insignificant.

A method for matching data from the 1980 and 1990 Public Use Microdata Samples of the U.S. Census with respect to the 100 most populous metropolitan areas is outlined. The data is used in comparative urban analysis.

The relationship between the flow of immigrants to the US and the internal migration of native-born workers is studied using data from the US Census Bureau's 1980 and 1990 microsamples. Three sets of 50 regression models containing different specifications of the immigration variable and the labor force size are estimated. Results show that internal migration is neither positively related or unrelated to immigration.

This paper analyzes the migration of Puerto Rican-born women from the United States to Puerto Rico using longitudinal data. We hypothesize that sojourn length in the United States is a function of both structural (macro-level economic and cultural factors) and behavioral (micro-level life-cycle experiences and personal attributes) variables. We test these hypotheses by estimating a proportional hazards model. The parameter estimates of this model indicate that sojourn length in the United States, and thus the decision to return to Puerto Rico, is a function of wage trends and community characteristics on the mainland plus a number of individual attributes that include education, marriage, and childbirth. Key Words: female migration and circulation, Puerto Rico, structural factors, behavioral factors, proportional hazards model.

Key words: defense spending, migration, defense-related occupations, Poisson regression. The social impacts of changes in the proportion of the federal budget devoted to defense spending continues to draw attention from [...]

Deflecting Immigration: Networks, Markets, and Regulation in Los Angeles By Ivan Light. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006. In the past two decades or so, the United States has experienced [...]

The household-scale racial mixing affects measurements of racial segregation in neighborhoods. The mixed households hinder the neighborhood-scale segregation.

Abstract: Inequality in the earnings of young men with different educational backgrounds has grown rapidly in the United States in recent years, but the growth of inequality has varied widely [...]

The article comments on the immigrant cartographies in the U.S. Maps of immigrants foster new research insights and bolster the perception that immigrants lead lives apart from the native born. However, feminist geographers argued that social geographies considered the household as a nexus of sociospatial relations that structure gendered inequalities. This implies that how the living arrangements of immigrants condition their geographies is neglected in the mapping. It also leaves the public with poorer understanding of social geographies.