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Key among Ravenstein's "laws", derived from extensive analysis of mid-19th century migration patterns in the British Isles, are that the majority of migrants go only a short distance and that migration proceeds stepwise as a sequence of localised population shifts towards the principal centres of commerce and industry. This paper tests these two laws in the 21st century context of counterurbanisation by reference to migration taking place within the Wider South East (WSE) of England, being the region dominated by deconcentration pressures emanating from London. It comprises two sets of empirical analyses using migration data for the period 2001-2016. Firstly, these data are aggregated to a set of broadly concentric rings around this core and analysed to reveal how much of the net outward shifts of population produced by this migration arises from net movement taking place between adjacent rings as a type of cascade as opposed to leapfrogging directly from the core into a non-adjacent ring. Cascading is found to predominate at this scale, confirming the continued importance of shorter-distance moving. Secondly, the migration data are rendered into a Travel to Work Area (TTWA) framework to examine the extent to which these subdivisions of the WSE perform a type of entrepôt role in helping to shift population outwards from London. Drawing on Ravenstein's concepts of counties of "transfer" and "absorption", two measures are developed for revealing how the net inflow to a particular TTWA from rings closer to the core compares numerically with the net outflow from that TTWA to the rings further away from it. The derived transfer and absorption rates are then used to classify the TTWAs into four groups according to whether their scores on each are above or below average. It is found that a TTWA's role varies according to two main dimensions: the concentric zone to which it belongs and the radial sector out of London in which it is located, notably whether the sector has a coastal or landward border.

This article examines the scale and nature of the impact of 1990s migration on the populations of the eight largest conurbations in Britain, with particular reference to their labour markets. It shows that all these cities have been performing more strongly in demographic terms than in the 1980s, but London has seen by far the biggest upward shift in rate of population change. The change has come about principally due to increased net immigration from overseas, for though the urban exodus to the rest of the UK was at a low point at the beginning of the decade, it has subsequently returned to its long-term of average of 90–100,000 a year net loss. The article goes on to look — in as much detail as the available data allows — at the composition of both within-Britain and overseas migration, focusing especially on its industrial and occupational characteristics. The 'net urban exodus' is found to be skewed towards the more skilled and generally wealthier sections of the population, especially in the case of the provincial conurbations. Similarly, the net gains from mainstream international movements are biased towards more qualified people, notably students but also professional and managerial workers, helping to some extent to offset the effects of the urban exodus. There is, however, no detailed information about the asylum seekers and 'visitor switchers' that are now contributing a significant share of overall net immigration, especially for London, and it is also extremely difficult to gauge the effects of emigration on cities. Given the importance of migration for British cities in the 1990s and projected for the next two decades, there is an urgent need for the improvement of data sources on migrants' characteristics and for the more systematic analysis of the migration component of labour market change.

Second-order cities are generally seen as disadvantaged places in the literature on globalisation, but in recent years they have staged a revival in several countries. This article uses two data sources to examine the employment change recorded by Britain's Core Cities between 2012 and 2017, breaking it down by type of worker, occupation and industry. It aims, firstly, to identify which elements of their growth are distinctive compared to the country as a whole and, secondly, to see how far their growth has been emulated by the areas around them that contain the majority of Britain's 'left-behind' places. The article demonstrates the great strides made by the nine provincial cities combined, substantially exceeding the national rate of increase for male, female, full-time, part-time, employee and self-employed work, notably in the three highest status occupational groups and in all industrial sectors apart from manufacturing and transport, especially business services. It is also found that their growth outstripped that of their local, regional and EU comparators, underlining the importance of direct policy intervention for 'left-behind' places rather than relying on 'trickle-down' processes, especially given uncertainties about the sustainability of Core City growth in the wake of COVID-19 and Brexit.

Although it is now accepted that the 2008–09 recession accentuated regional differences in Britain, it is more difficult to identify the role of major cities—especially over a longer time scale. With the aid of previously established methods focused on employment, this paper assesses the records of nine second-order city regions in the 2008–09 recession and contrasts them with the previous two recessions. The 2008–09 recession is found to have impacted these city regions less than the other two in absolute terms, but not in relative terms compared with the London city region or the rest of Britain. Over the whole period from 1978, the second-order city regions are found to be fairly tightly in the grip of national cyclical and structural trends, but all but two of them showed negative deviation from the growth rate predicted on this basis. In comparison, London showed appreciably more cyclical behaviour between 1989 and 2002 than at other times, with a particularly strong recovery from recession in this period. The public sector helped the performance of second-order city regions over the study period including 2007–10, but employment reductions in this sector will dominate their prospects for several years to come.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- 1 Introduction: Moving Beyond the Urban-Rural Dichotomy -- 2 Lest We Re-invent the Wheel: Lessons from Previous Experience -- 3 World Urbanization: Trends and Prospects -- PART II: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON SETTLEMENT CHANGE -- 4 The Fading of City-Suburb and Metro-Nonmetro Distinctions in the United States -- 5 Population Dynamics and Urbanization in Latin America: Concepts and Data Limitations -- 6 Urbanization Trends in Asia: The Conceptual and Definitional Challenges -- 7 Analyzing Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa -- PART III: CASE STUDIES -- 8 The Transformation of the Urban System in Mexico -- 9 Urban Development and Population Redistribution in Delhi: Implications for Categorizing Population -- 10 Urbanization and Metropolitanization in Brazil: Trends and Methodological Challenges -- 11 Changing Urbanization Processes and In Situ Rural-Urban Transformation: Reflections on China's Settlement Definitions -- PART IV: CONCEPTUALIZING SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS -- 12 An Evolutionary Approach to Settlement Systems -- 13 The Conceptualization and Analysis of Urban Systems: A North American Perspective -- 14 The Nature of Rurality in Postindustrial Society -- 15 Rethinking 'Rurality' -- PART V: MOVING FROM THE CONCEPTUAL TO THE OPERATIONAL -- 16 Multiple Dimensions of Settlement Systems: Coping with Complexity -- 17 Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems to Identify the Underlying Properties of Urban Environments -- 18 Reflections on the Review of Metropolitan Area Standards in the United States, 1990-2000 -- PART VI: THE WAY FORWARD -- 19 Conclusions and Recommendations -- Bibliography -- Index

"The frequency with which people move home has important implications for national economic performance and the well-being of individuals and families. Much contemporary social and migration theory posits that the world is becoming more mobile, leading to the recent 'mobilities turn' within the social sciences. Yet, there is mounting evidence to suggest that this may not be true of all types of mobility, nor apply equally to all geographical contexts. For example, it is now clear that internal migration rates have been falling in the USA since at least the 1980s. To what extent might this trend be true of other developed countries? Drawing on detailed empirical literature, Internal Migration in the Developed World examines the long-term trends in internal migration in a variety of more advanced countries to explore the factors that underpin these changes. Using case studies of the USA, UK, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Germany and Italy, this pioneering book presents a critical assessment of the extent to which global structural forces, as opposed to national context, influence internal migration in the Global North.Internal Migration in the Developed World fills the void in this neglected aspect of migration studies and will appeal to a wide disciplinary audience of researchers and students working in Geography, Migration Studies, Population Studies and Development Studies. "--Provided by publisher.

The analysis uses the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (NILS) to explore migration trends from 2001 to 2015. Its contributions are to extend this analysis to the period after the 2011 Census, to use administrative data to measure migration not as a transition between places but as (potentially) multiple events over the full 2001-2015 period over different distance bands, to add to the UK evidence base on internal migration trends, and to show how long-term trends appear to override economic cyclical effects. The results show that internal migration rates over all distance bands fell from 2001 forward, continuing a decline in migration between Super Output Areas recorded since 1981, the first date for which there are data. This indicates that Northern Ireland, despite its unique political and social history, has not been immune to the long-term migration decline observed elsewhere in Great Britain and other countries such as the USA. The only caveat to this is that when moves from Northern Ireland to other places are included in the long-distance band of 50km or more then long-distance migration returns to near its 2001-2003 level by 2013. The analysis also shows that the same personal characteristics as elsewhere are related to different frequencies and distances of moving.

"In diesem Beitrag wird untersucht, ob die in den letzten Jahren in ländlichen Gebieten Englands eingetroffenen Immigranten längere Strecken zu ihrem Arbeitsplatz zurücklegen als Personen, die seit längerem an diesen Orten ansässig sind, und ob die Entfernung zum Arbeitsplatz je nach der Art der Umsiedelung und des geografischen Kontexts der Heimat unterschiedlich ausfällt. Die Studie basiert auf Daten des Individual Controlled Access Microdata Sample (CAMS) aus der Volkszählung von 2001. Wir stellen fest, dass die in den letzten Jahren eingetroffenen Immigranten viel häufiger Strecken von mindestens 20 km zum Arbeitsplatz zurücklegen als seit längerem ansässige Personen. Zur Berücksichtigung der soziodemografischen Unterschiede zwischen den Personen wenden wir eine binäre logistische Regression an und weisen nach, dass die Wahrscheinlichkeit längerer Anfahrten zum Arbeitsplatz unter Personen, die von ihrer Heimat aus an einen zwischen 15 und 99 km entfernten Ort umgezogen sind, sowie unter Personen, die aus den größten Städten umgezogen sind, am höchsten ausfällt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)