ABSTRACT
Different kinds of movement can be classified according to this composite ‘space-time-purpose of move’ concept. Individual movers can be linked and separated in terms of their similar and dissimilar locations within it. Migration is usually defined as a change of residence over the predefined boundaries of a place for a period of one or more years. Field experience shows, however, that people generally do not perceive migration as do demographers. To collapse the spatio-temporal characteristics of the movement into fewer and generalized mobility behaviours, the peoples resort to the systematics of numerical taxonomy. Hawaiians occupy an intermediate position between Japanese and Filipinos; compared with the Japanese they usually make fewer military moves as well as migrate less frequently for work, but migrate more than Filipinos. The diagram portrays a definite and unique location for the Japanese, Part-Hawaiian and Filipino communities of Kurtistown in terms of different mobility patterns and varying phases of modernization.
