Research Area: Population Dynamics:
Immigration and Internal Migration in the US
Recent Publications
Books
Knodel, John E., Jiraporn Kespichayawattana, Suvinee Wiwatwanich, and Chanpen Saengtienchai. 2007. Migration and Intergenerational Solidarity: Evidence from Rural Thailand. Bangkok: UNFPA.
Frey, William H., Amy Anspach, John DeWitt, and SSDAN Staff. 2007. Allyn & Bacon Social Atlas of the United States. Boston : Pearson/Allyn & Bacon.
Journal Articles
2008
Yang, Dean. 2008. "International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants’ Exchange Rate Shocks." Economic Journal, 118(528): 591-630.
2006
Frey, William H. 2006. "Housing Crunch: America's Gated Regions." Milken Institute Review, Third Quarter.
2005
Alter, George C., and Michel Oris. 2005. "Childhood Conditions, Migration, and Mortality: Migrants and Natives in Nineteenth-century Cities." Social Biology, 52(3-4): 178-191.
Liaw, Kao-Lee, and Lei Xu. 2005. "Problematic Post-landing Migration of the Immigrants in Canada: From 1980-82 through 1992-95." Journal of Population Studies (Taiwan), 31, 105-152.
Frey, William H. 2005. "Metro America in the New Century: Metropolitan and Central City Demographic Shifts since 2000." Brookings Institution, Living Cities Census Series, September. Reprint No. 612.
2004
Liaw, Kao-Lee, and M.Z. Qi. 2004. "Lifetime Interprovincial Migration in Canada: Looking Beyond Short-Run Fluctuations." Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien, 48(2): 168-190.
Frey, William H. 2004. "Brain Gains/Brain Drains." American Demographics, 26(5): 19-23.
2003
Liaw, Kao-Lee, and William H. Frey. 2003. "Location of Adult Children as an Attraction for Black and White Elderly 'Return' and 'Onward' Migrants in the United States: Application of a Three-Level Nested Logit Model with Census Data." Mathematical Population Studies, 10: 75-98.
Liaw, Kao-Lee. 2003. "Distinctive Features of the Sex Ratio of Japanís Interprefectural Migration: An Explanation Based on the Family System and Spatial Economy of Japan." International Journal of Population Geography, 9(3): 199-214.
2002
Frey, William H. 2002. "Three Americas: The Rising Significance of Regions." Journal of the American Planning Association, 68(4): 349-355. Reprint No. 595.
Liaw, Kao-Lee, William H. Frey, and Ji Ping Lin. 2002. "Location of Adult Children as an Attraction for Black and White Elderly Primary Migrants in the United States." Environment and Planning A, 34(2): 191-216.
Liaw, Kao-Lee. 2002. "Major Theoretical Perspectives on Elderly Migration." Journal of Population Studies , 30: 1-22.
Johnson, Nan. 2002. "Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millennium." Rural Sociology, 67(2): 311-314.
Wang, Guangzhou, Yufen Tong, and Jiehua Lu. 2002. "Analysis on the Staying Time and Effects of Floating Population of Beijing." Population and Economics, 2.
McConnell, Eileen, and Felicia B. LeClere. 2002. "Selection, Context, or Both? The English Fluency of Mexican Immigrants to the American Midwest and Southwest." Population Research and Policy Review, 21: 179-204.
Chapters
Sylvester, Kenneth M. 2007. "Rural to Urban Migration: Finding Household Complexity in a New World Environment." In Household Counts: Canadian Households and Families in 1901 edited by Peter Baskerville and Eric W. Sager. 147-179. University of Toronto Press.
Johnson, Paul C. 2006. "Joining the African Diaspora: Dynamics of Migration and Urban Religion." In Women and Religions of the African Diaspora: knowledge, power, and performance edited by Marie Griffith and Barbara D. Savage. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press.
Frey, William H., and Kao-Lee Liaw. 2005. "Migration within the United States: Role of Race and Ethnicity." In Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, 2005 edited by G. Burtless and J. Rothenberg Pack. The Brookings Institution Press.
Anderson, Barbara. 2005. "Migration in South Africa in Comparative Perspective." In Migration in South and Southern Africa: Dynamics and Determinants edited by Kok, Pieter, Derik Gelderblom, John Oucho, Johan van Zyl. Pretoria, South Africa: Human Sciences Research Council.
Frey, William H. 2004. "Where Immigrants Matter Most: Assessing New Migration Dynamics in America." In The Book of the States, 2004 Edition edited by Council of State Governments and American Legislators' Association. Pp. 320-388. Lexington, KY: Council of State Governments.
PSC Reports
Zimmer, Zachary S., and John E. Knodel. 2009. "Return Migration and the Health of Older Aged Parents: Evidence from Rural Thailand." PSC Research Report No. 09-689. September 2009.
Liaw, Kao-Lee, and William H. Frey. 2009. "Choices of Metropolitan Destinations by the 1995-2000 New Immigrants Born in Mexico and India: Characterization and Multivariate Explanation." PSC Research Report No. 09-687. August 2009.
Nicklett, Emily, and Sarah Burgard. 2009. "Downward Social Mobility and Major Depressive Episodes among Latino and Asian American Immigrants to the United States." PSC Research Report No. 09-668. January 2009.
Fussell, Elizabeth, Narayan Sastry , and Mark VanLandingham. 2009. "Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Return Migration to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina." PSC Research Report No. 09-667. January 2009.
Sastry, Narayan. 2008. "Displaced New Orleans Residents in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: Results from a Pilot Survey." PSC Research Report No. 08-640. June 2008.
Frey, William H. 2008. "Race, Immigration and America’s Changing Electorate." PSC Research Report No. 08-635. April 2008.
Massey, Douglas S., William Axinn, and Dirgha Ghimire. 2007. "Environmental Change and Out-Migration: Evidence from Nepal." PSC Research Report No. 07-615. January 2007.
Xie, Yu, Yang Jiang, and Emily Greenman. 2006. "Did Send-Down Experience Benefit Youth? A Reevaluation of the Social Consequences of Forced Urban-Rural Migration during China’s Cultural Revolution." PSC Research Report No. 06-603. August 2006.
Wu, Xiaogang, and Donald Treiman. 2006. "Inequality and Equality under a State Socialist Regime: Occupational Mobility in Contemporary China." PSC Research Report No. 06-598. April 2006.
Wu, Xiaogang. 2005. "Registration Status, Labor Migration, and Socioeconomic Attainment in China’s Segmented Labor Markets." PSC Research Report No. 05-579. July 2005.
Frey, William H., and Kao-Lee Liaw. 2005. "Interstate Migration of Hispanics, Asians and Blacks: Cultural Constraints and Middle Class Flight." PSC Research Report No. 05-575. May 2005.
Knodel, John E., and Chanpen Saengtienchai. 2005. "Rural Parents with Urban Children: Social and Economic Implications of Migration on the Rural Elderly in Thailand." PSC Research Report No. 05-574. April 2005.
Frey, William H., and Dowell Myers. 2005. "Racial Segregation in US Metropolitan Areas and Cities, 1990–2000: Patterns, Trends, and Explanations." PSC Research Report No. 05-573. April 2005.
Frey, William H. 2005. "Immigration and Domestic Migration in US Metro Areas: 2000 and 1990 Census Findings by Education and Race." PSC Research Report No. 05-572. April 2005.
Frey, William H. 2002. "Census 2000 Reveals New Native-Born and Foreign-Born Shifts Across U.S." PSC Research Report No. 02-520. August 2002.
Frey, William H. 2002. "Metro Magnets for Minorities and Whites: Melting Pots, the New Sunbelt, and the Heartland." PSC Research Report No. 02-496. February 2002.
Other Reports
Frey, William H. 2004. "The New Great Migration: Black Americans' Return to the South, 1965-2000." .
Frey, William H. 2003. "Metropolitan Magnets for International and Domestic Migrants." .
