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Using data from the Residential Preference and Migration Survey, a panel study of Pennsylvania households on migration intention and behavior, the authors examine some aspects of the decision to migrate. "We first examine the impact of the presence or absence of household interaction on the desire to move, migration expectations, and actual migration behavior. We hypothesize that the presence of household interaction is associated with migration behavior, while the absence of household interaction on migration-related issues is a predictor of staying in the present residence. Second, we test an expanded residential satisfaction migration decision model.... The expanded model permits us to test the thesis that household interaction frequency and consensus/conflict are moderating factors in explaining and predicting the outcome of migration decision making."
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Comportamento , Comunicação , Tomada de Decisões , Emigração e Imigração , Características da Família , Relações Familiares , Modelos Teóricos , Dinâmica Populacional , América , Demografia , Países Desenvolvidos , Geografia , América do Norte , Pennsylvania , População , Pesquisa , Características de Residência , Estados UnidosRESUMO
PIP: This article focuses on the impact of the family reunification provisions in the US immigration policy for legal immigration from the Philippines. Immigration and Naturalization Service data on the changing pattern of Philippine immigration to the US between 1971 and 1984 show an increase of nearly 2 1/2 times in the number of immediate family members exempt from numerical limitations, a doubling in the number of immigrants entering under family preference categories, but a marked decline in the number of occupational preference immigrants. Immigration-related plans, behavior, and characteristics from the immigrants' perspective are also analyzed. A family unification policy-based typology has been constructed to categorize intended and actual immigrants to the US. Using this typology, systematic differences are reported for out-migration plans, family contacts, the immigration process, and the characteristics of intended and actual immigrants. While political and economic system competition and inequality are contextual factors for international migration, from the immigrants' perspective, joining family members by means of the family reunification provisions of the US immigration policy is the dominant explanation for legal immigration to the US in a sample of 1340 adults in Philippine households in 1982.^ieng
