ABSTRACT
In cases where social and economic differences between the two groups are large, the migration process may clearly be expected to have a substantial impact upon the population composition of the receiving city. Various additional factors, which are associated with smaller urban centers but lacking from the national primate city, are also seen by Theodore D. Fuller as facilitating the process of upward social mobility among migrants. The ownership scale gives a better indication of the economic status of the household as a whole, since it is affected by the economic contributions of the spouse, as well as those provided by the husband. Some studies have shown migrants to hold levels of educational and occupational attainment that are similar to or even higher than those found for nonmigrants in their city of destination, despite the relatively high levels of educational attainment to be found therein.
