ABSTRACT
A growing body of research (Goldstein 1964; Morrison 1970; Long and Hansen 1977; and Miller 1977) documents that the migration process is much more complex than traditional published census-type information suggests. For many individuals, the most recent move is only the last of a long series of moves. For some, migration involves many moves in a stepping-stone process from less to more developed locations or from rural to smaller urban to larger urban places; for others, the migration history may be quite random; and for others, it might consist of a pattern of circulating moves between two or more places (Chapman and Prothero 1977). Some persons may move only once, directly to their ultimate destination, but often they are only a minority of all migrants.
