Migration in the 1930s: Beyond the Dust Bowl. Issue 4 (3rd November 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Migration in the 1930s: Beyond the Dust Bowl. Issue 4 (3rd November 2016)
- Main Title:
- Migration in the 1930s: Beyond the Dust Bowl
- Authors:
- Gutmann, Myron P.
Brown, Daniel
Cunningham, Angela R.
Dykes, James
Leonard, Susan Hautaniemi
Little, Jani
Mikecz, Jeremy
Rhode, Paul W.
Spielman, Seth
Sylvester, Kenneth M. - Abstract:
- Abstract : This paper analyzes in detail the role of environmental and economic shocks in the migration of the 1930s. The 1940 US Census of Population asked every inhabitant where they lived five years earlier, a unique source for understanding migration flows and networks. Earlier research documented migrant origins and destinations, but we will show how short-term and annual weather conditions at sending locations in the 1930s explain those flows, and how they operated through agricultural success. Beyond demographic data, we use data about temperature and precipitation, plus data about agricultural production from the agricultural census. The widely known migration literature for the 1930s describes an era of relatively low migration, with much of the migration that did occur radiating outward from the Dust Bowl region and the cotton South. Our work about the complete United States will provide a fuller examination of migration in this socially and economically important era.
- Is Part Of:
- Social science history. Volume 40:Issue 4(2016)
- Journal:
- Social science history
- Issue:
- Volume 40:Issue 4(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 40, Issue 4 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 40
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0040-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 707
- Page End:
- 740
- Publication Date:
- 2016-11-03
- Subjects:
- Social sciences -- Periodicals
Social sciences
Electronic journals
Periodicals
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http://firstsearch.oclc.org/journal=0145-5532;screen=info;ECOIP ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1017/ssh.2016.28 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0145-5532
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