ABSTRACT

ONCE the family moves to the housing estate, the question of how they came to be there has for them an academic flavour, and for us the question now is the difference migration has made to them. Table 14 compares contacts with relatives before leaving Bethnal Green with those in 1953 and 1955. It records the total contacts of husbands and wives with parents and siblings on both sides: before he moved, the average husband, for example, saw one or other of his relatives on 15 occasions in a week. Changes in Weekly Contacts with Relatives After Migration (Greenleigh sample—39 husbands and 41 wives) https://www.niso.org/standards/z39-96/ns/oasis-exchange/table">

Average number of contacts per week with own and spouse's parents and siblings

before leaving ‘Bethnal Green

Greenleigh 1953

Greenleigh 1955

Husbands

15.0

3.8

3.3

Wives

17.2

3.0

2.4