Farm Migrants to the City: A Comparison of the Status, Achievement, Community, and Family Relations of Farm Migrants with Urban Migrants and Urban Natives in Des Moines Iowa, March 1965

(1965) Farm Migrants to the City: A Comparison of the Status, Achievement, Community, and Family Relations of Farm Migrants with Urban Migrants and Urban Natives in Des Moines Iowa, March 1965. Iowa State University

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Abstract

The findings of this study support three general conclusions: (1) Although farm migrants had lower achievement in occupational status, income and other measures of socio-economic status in the city than did urban migrants and urban natives, most of the differences were accounted for by lower educational levels among farm migrants. (2) There were few measurable differences in adjustments to city life, and the few significant differences that were observed could be accounted for largely by differences in occupational status among the three samples. (3) There were no significant differences between farm migrants. urban migrants and Des Moines natives in the various manifestations of familism.