Rooted America
Immobility and Segregation of the Intercounty Migration Network
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4522147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peng Huang (0000-0001-5614-786X, University of California, Irvine), C T Butts (0000-0002-7911-9834, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1031-1065 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00031224231212679 |
| OpenAlex | W4388945175 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 180 |
Despite the popular narrative that the United States is a "land of mobility," the country may have become a "rooted America" after a decades-long decline in migration rates. This article interrogates the lingering question about the social forces that limit migration, with an empirical focus on internal migration in the United States. We propose a systemic, network model of migration flows, combining demographic, economic, political, and geographic factors and network dependence structures that reflect the internal dynamics of migration systems. Using valued temporal exponential-family random graph models, we model the network of intercounty migration flows from 2011 to 2015. Our analysis reveals a pattern of segmented immobility, where fewer people migrate between counties with dissimilar political contexts, levels of urbanization, and racial compositions. Probing our model using "knockout experiments" suggests one would have observed approximately 4.6 million (27 percent) more intercounty migrants each year were the segmented immobility mechanisms inoperative. This article offers a systemic view of internal migration and reveals the social and political cleavages that underlie geographic immobility in the United States
Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Internal migration · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Urbanization · Demography · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |