title: Black retirement migration in the United States.
abstract: The specific aim of this study was to extend the analysis of retirement migration patterns to older Blacks. The 1980 Census public use sample A provided the data for this analysis. Because of their strong initial southern settlement and their labor force out-migration patterns in this century, many older Black migrants are "provincial return migrants" to the South, a migrant type that may decline among Blacks in the future. There is also a regional counterstream migration pattern among older Black migrants. Out-migrants in this stream from the South have elevated indicators of dependency. Suggestions are made for other related studies of Black retirement migration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Miami.
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Longino
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012179:Retirement; D014481:United States