Northeast Minneapolis: Location and Movement in an Ethnic Community.

Abstract

This study investigated six hypotheses concerning the development of an ethnic community and intra-urban migration in Minneapolis from 1905 to 1945; (1) Although a Polish ethnic core area could be identified, provincial clustering was not sharply defined within that group. (2) The 'port of entry' function grew with the community and was not bound to the area of transient housing; (3) The length of first generation move was more closely related to the expansion of Minneapolis and its economy than to the length of time since arrival; (4) It cannot categorically be stated that second generation individuals are more mobile than first generation members. Important considerations are the definition of mobility used and the age structure of each generation; and (5) More Polish moves were explained by within-group information flows than by Adams' wedge-shaped mental map notion. Stability, not mobility, was the keynote of Polish residential choice.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA101488

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People

  • Richard Wolniewicz

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Age Groups
  • Air Force
  • Boundaries
  • Employment
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Families (Human)
  • Geography
  • Grids
  • Language
  • Life Cycles
  • Mississippi River
  • New York
  • Numbers
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • United States
  • Urban Areas

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