Determinants of the Seasonal Migration of the Elderly to Sunbelt States

Abstract

For the first time in 1980, the U.S. Census Bureau compiled information relating to seasonal migration. More than one-half million persons were identified as nonpermanent residents of the localities in which they were living on the census day. Interpreting these data as measures of temporary migration flows, this article uses this information for the states of Arizona and Florida to investigate the nature of the seasonal migration of the elderly to Sunbelt states every winter.

A Logistic Model of the Seasonal Migration Decision for Elderly Households in Arizona and Minnesota

“…While most studies of elderly seasonal migrants have relied upon data from surveys conducted in particular Sunbelt states, a few studies have utilized information relating to nonpermanent resident populations derived from the 1980 Census of Population (Gober & Mings, 1984;Hogan, 1987;Hogan & Steinnes, 1993;Rose & Kingma, 1989;Steinnes & Hogan, 1992). These data on nonpermanent residents were not intended by the U.S. Census Bureau to be accurate estimates of seasonal or other forms of temporary migration, and researchers have emphasized problems with the data and the fact that the data underestimate the volume of temporary migration.…”

“…Even with these limitations, the Census data represent the only nationwide data relating to temporary migration available and have been the basis of national studies of the phenonemon. In particular, these data were utilized to estimate models of elderly seasonal migration to Arizona and Florida (Hogan, 1987) and to compare models of permanent and seasonal migration flows to Arizona (Hogan & Steinnes, 1993).…”

El turismo residencial no existe. Revisión de un concepto y crítica de su función ideológica

“…Para referirse a esta variedad de desplazamientos la literatura científica, sobre todo la producida en inglés, ha empleado multitud de términos, dependiendo de los grupos y los comportamientos concretos estudiados o de las características que se han considerado esenciales. A continuación, y sin pretensión de exhaustividad, se enumeran algunas de las expresiones frecuentes y algunos de los autores que las han utilizado, aunque ello no implique que sean quienes las han acuñado: «second-home tourism» (Breuer, 2005;Jaakson, 1986), «long-stay tourism» (Ono, 2008), «residential tourism» (O'Reilly, 2007;McWatters, 2008), «real estate tourism» (Barrantes, 2011;Hof y Blázquez, 2013) «tourism-led migration» (Williams y Hall, 2002), «amenity migration» (Haas y Serow, 1993;Moss, 2006), «cyclical migration» (McHugh et al, 1995), «elderly migration» (Biggar, 1980;Huber y O'Reilly, 2004), «later-life migration» (Silverstein y Zablotsky, 1996;Walters, 2002), «leisure migration» (Böröcz, 1996), «lifestyle migration» (Benson y O'Reilly, 2009;Sato, 2001), «retirement migration» Rodríguez, 2001), «residential migration» (Salvà, 2002a), «seasonal migration» (Gustafson, 2002;Hogan, 1987), «temporary migration» (Smith y House, 2007), «snowbird migration» (Longino et al, 1991), «elderly residential mobility» (Speare y Meyer, 1988), «leisure-oriented mobility» (Hall et al, 2004), «lifestyle mobilities» (Janoschka, 2009), «privileged mobility» (Croucher, 2012) o «tourism-related mobilities» (Janoschka, 2011).…”

Australians on the move : internal migration in Australia, 1981-1986

“…The first concems the limitetions of single residence-based conceptions of movement which, as Behr and Gober (1982) point out, fail to take account of such groups as the homeless, bipolar families and those with multiple residences, as well as seasonal migration and other forms of circulation. Circulatory movement has emerged as a major theme in studies of population in the Third World (Chapman & Prothero 1983) whilst seasonal movements of the elderly have received increasing attention in westem countries (Hogan 1987, Krout 1983, McHugh 1990, McHugh & Mings 1991, Rose & Kingma 1989, Sullivan & Stevens 1982. To date, however, little more than lip-service has been paid to the other forms of movement identified above.…”

“…Compared with census data, surveys also provide more detailed information on the spatial pattems of migration, as well as being the sole avenue for research on those groups who are excluded by censusbased definitions of migrants. Examples of the use of survey data in these areas 23 include work on distance and directional bias in intra-urban migration (see, for example, Adams 1969, Brown & Holmes 1971, Lee 1970 and seasonal movements amongst the elderly (see, for example, Hogan 1987). …”