“How Ya Gonna Keep ’Em Down on the Farm, After They’ve Seen Paree?” World War I Overseas Military Service and Rural Americans’ Postwar Occupational Mobility

Modeling Education Deserts for Veterans and Military Families in the Southern United States

“…When we consider that nearly one third of all undergraduate students transfer before earning their degree, including reverse transfers (e.g., from four-year to two-year programs, per Gonzalez 2012), it becomes clear that complex patterns of student mobility and spatial behavior render the traditional linear metaphor inadequate. Similarly, it falls far short to describe the behavior of military veterans, who are highly mobile, whose geographies are constrained by the presence of bases or installations, who are often reassigned to new places without personally choosing locations, and whose postservice occupational mobility are influenced in diverse ways as a result of their service (Cunningham 2021). Nonlinear mobility and the impact of economic forces on spatial human behavior are better captured in a landscape type of analysis that serves as a "base map" for understanding how access is "geographically contingent, spatial in nature, or dynamically connected across scales" (Sol ıs and Miyares 2014, 169).…”