ECONOMIC FACTORS IN NEGRO MIGRATION-- PAST AND FUTURE.

Weaver, Robert C.

The United States, like all young countries, has been developed by and subjected to a series of migrations. European peoples from various sections of the continent moved into this country in consecutive and concurrent waves during the period prior to the World War. During and after the war, the influx of foreign-born persons into the United States was abated. This paper attempts to delineate the possible future trends of population movements among African Americans. The analysis presented here indicates that during the next few years, there will probably be no appreciable mass movement of African Americans to the North and West. Inevitably, the greater economic attractiveness of these regions will lead to greater migration of Southern workers, both colored and white, to the North and West, but this will probably be delayed because of the present labor reserves and slight prospect of immediate industrial expansion in these sections. In the realm of public housing it may be noted that future population movements among African Americans suggest the desirability and feasibility of continuing slum clearance and low-rent housing in African American neighborhoods in the South.

UNITED States; EMIGRATION & immigration; EUROPEANS; AFRICAN Americans; PUBLIC housing; SLUM clearance

Social Forces, 1939, Vol 18, Issue 1, p90

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Academic Journal

10.2307/2570501