Category: Migration
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Recent Data Suggest Rural America Is Growing Again After a Decade of Population Loss In this data snapshot, author Kenneth Johnson reports that after a decade of population loss, rural America gained population between 2020 and 2021 because migration gains offset a growing excess of deaths over births due to COVID-19.
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Demography | Demography, Migration, Mortality | Publication |
Retaining Residents Is Important to New Hampshire’s Future In this brief, authors Kristine Bundschuh and Kenneth Johnson discuss the results of NH Granite State Polls conducted from 2010–2012 and 2018–2019 that asked a representative sample of over 3,300 established residents to share, in their own words, their top three reasons for staying in New Hampshire rather than moving to another state.
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Demography, New Hampshire | Demography, Economy, Employment, Family, Migration, New Hampshire | Publication |
Rural America Lost Population Over the Past Decade for the First Time in History In this brief Carsey Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson examines rural demographic trends between 2010 and 2020 using data from the 2020 Census. With fewer births, more deaths, and more people leaving than moving in, rural America experienced an overall population loss for the first time in history.
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Demography | Birth Rates, COVID-19, Demography, Fertility, Migration, Mortality, Rural | Publication |
Smallest U.S. Population Growth in History: More Deaths, Fewer Births, and Less Immigration In this brief, author Kenneth Johnson reports that the U.S. population grew by just 393,000 between July of 2020 and July of 2021 according to new Census Bureau estimates—the lowest rate of annual population gain in history and the smallest numeric gain in more than 100 years.
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Demography | Birth Rates, COVID-19, Demography, Migration, Mortality | Publication |
Stay or Leave Coös County? Parents' Messages Matter When it comes to deciding whether to stay in New Hampshire's rural Coös County or leave for other opportunities, young people are listening to their parents. Surveying 78 percent of all seventh and eleventh graders in public schools in Coös County, researchers found that young peoples' future intentions to migrate from Coös in search of economic or educational opportunities or to remain in Coös to pursue a future close to home are closely aligned with the messages their parents deliver to them.
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New Hampshire | Coös Youth Study, Family, Migration, New Hampshire, Young Adults | Publication |
The Changing Faces of New England New England is growing more slowly than the rest of the nation. The region is becoming more racially diverse, and demographic trends contrast sharply between northern and southern New England and metropolitan and rural areas. New England's population stood at 14,270,000 in July 2006, marking a gain of just 2.5 percent since 2000, less than half the national rate.
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Demography, New Hampshire | Birth Rates, Demography, Immigration, Migration, Mortality, New England, Race | Publication |
The Changing Faces of New Hampshire New Hampshire, with a total population of 1.3 million, gained 79,000 residents between 2000 and 2006. Most of this growth - 51,000 residents - came from migration. The migration also brought economic gains: New Hampshire gained at least $1.4 billion in income from migration between 2001 and 2005, and households moving in earned nearly $9,000 more than those leaving.
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Demography, New Hampshire | Birth Rates, Demography, Hispanics, Migration, New England, New Hampshire | Publication |
The Recent U.S. Population Growth Rate Increased from Last Year’s Record Low, but Remains Below Historical Levels In this brief, author Kenneth Johnson reports that the U.S. population grew by just 1,256,000 between July of 2021 and July of 2022, according to recent Census Bureau estimates. This was an increase from the record low growth of the preceding year, but it remains well below historical rates.
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Demography | Birth Rates, COVID-19, Demography, Fertility, Immigration, Migration, Mortality | Publication |
Why Do the Children Flee? “Fleeing Gangs, Children Head to U.S. Border”
New York Times July 9, 2014
In summer of 2014, headlines throughout the hemisphere called attention to an unfolding tragedy: the plight of Central Americans fleeing north to escape the violence engulfing their communities. The staggering number of migrants seeking refuge sparked a great deal of debate within the United States, particularly due to the large numbers of children. In 2014, approximately 57,000 unaccompanied minors traveled from Central America to Mexico, continuing north to cross the U.S. border illegally. Once in the United States, most children turned themselves over to U.S. Border Control agents and faced swift deportation proceedings. Others have been temporarily reunited with family members throughout the United States, waiting for the courts to decide their fate. Thus far in 2015, the number of unaccompanied child apprehensions on the southwest border has declined compared to 2014.
However, some border crossing zones (particularly the Big Bend and Yuma sectors) report sharp increases in apprehension rates, indicating that migrants and traffickers may be adjusting their tactics to try to elude U.S. border agents.1 In Mexico, apprehension and deportation rates of Central American migrants have almost doubled this year, as Mexican officials have ramped up enforcement efforts at the behest of U.S. officials. Central Americans are still fleeing, but many are detained in Mexico before they reach the U.S. border.
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Demography, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Migration | Publication |
Why People Move to and Stay in New Hampshire Migration is important to New Hampshire’s demographic future. Traditionally, the state has grown both because of migration into it and because of the surplus of births over deaths. However, recently all of New Hampshire’s population growth has been due to migration. In this brief, authors Kenneth Johnson and Kristine Bundschuh analyze data from the University of New Hampshire Survey Center’s Granite State Poll to examine the characteristics of two groups of current New Hampshire residents—recent migrants and established residents—to understand why people move to and choose to stay in the state. Their findings illustrate that migration decisions are influenced by an interrelated set of factors that encompass elements of the state’s social, economic, and natural environment.
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Demography, New Hampshire | Birth Rates, Demography, Migration, New Hampshire, Public Opinion | Publication |
With Less Migration, Natural Increase is Now More Important to State Growth According to Johnson's analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data, the nation continues to experience reduced levels of domestic migration (movement from one state to another) as a result of the economic recession, and natural increases (births versus deaths) are an increasingly important factor in population gains.
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Demography | Birth Rates, Demography, Migration, Mortality | Publication |