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"Going home" or "leaving home"? — the impact of person and place ties on anticipated counterstream migration
Author(s)	Eleanor Palo Stoller, Charles F Longino Jr
Journal title	The Gerontologist, vol 41, no 1, February 2001
Pages	pp 96-102
Keywords	Migration ; Geographical distance ; Family relationships ; Friends ; Social surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	The probability of anticipated return migration in retirees is explored. Survey data were analysed from interviews with a sample of older European Americans who migrated to a metropolitan city on Florida's east coast following retirement. Results are consistent with the specification of the second move in Litwak and Longino's (1987) life course model of retirement migration. Respondents were unlikely to anticipate a return move, unless ties to the back home community made such a move possible. In conclusion, ties with children, both back home and in Florida, significantly influence consideration of a return move. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010622208 A
Classmark	TN: RJ: DS:SJ: SX: 3F: 7T
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