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Migration, Internal

Here are entered works on the movement of population within the borders of a single country. Works on migration across national borders in modern times are entered under Emigration and immigration. Works on the spread of population, largely in prehistoric times, are entered under Human beings -- Migrations. Works on the mass migrations of peoples are entered under Migrations of nations.

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• Population geography
• Migration

• Migration, Internal -- Congresses
• Migration, Internal -- Developing countries
• Migration, Internal -- Indonesia
• Migration, Internal -- Oceania
• Migration, Internal -- Russia
• Migration, Internal -- United States
• Cities and towns -- Growth
• Forced migration
• Migration, Internal, in literature
• Residential mobility
• Rural-urban migration

• Internal migration
• Mobility

• Human Migration (originally published as Scientific Geography #7; c1986), by W. A. V. Clark (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)

• Exiles and Migrants in Oceania (ASAO Monograph #5; Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1977), ed. by Michael D. Lieber (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)

• The New Landscape: Urbanisation in the Third World (1989), by Charles Correa (PDF files at Wayback Machine (only individual chapter files are downloadable))

• From "Stone-Age" to "Real-Time": Exploring Papuan Temporalities, Mobilities and Religiosities, ed. by Martin Slama and Jenny Munro (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Motives of West Russian Nobles in Deserting Lithuania for Moscow, 1377-1514 (with maps by Jenks; Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1957), by Oswald P. Backus, illust. by George F. Jenks (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Glory Trail: The Great American Migration and Its Impact on Natural Resources (1958), by Ernest Swift (PDF unl.edu)
• A Century of Negro Migration, by Carter Godwin Woodson (Gutenberg text)

• A Little More Freedom: African Americans Enter the Urban Midwest, 1860-1930 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Jack S. Blocker (PDF at Ohio State)

• A Century of Negro Migration, by Carter Godwin Woodson (Gutenberg text)

• The Young Emigrants: A Tale Designed for Young Persons (Boston: Carter and Hendee, 1830), by Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Sport of the Gods, by Paul Laurence Dunbar (Gutenberg text)

• Urbanization and Growth (Washington: Commission on Growth and Development; World Bank, c2009), ed. by Michael Spence, Patricia Clarke Annez, and Robert M. Buckley (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)
• Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1964), by Jean Gottmann (PDF files at MIT)
• A Communications Theory of Urban Growth (Cambridge, MA: Pub. for the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University by MIT Press, 1962), by Richard L. Meier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Metropolitan Area as a Racial Problem (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1958), by Morton Grodzins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Growth of Cities, by Henry Philip Tappan (page images at MOA)

• The Expanding Metropolis: Coping with the Urban Growth of Cairo (1985), ed. by Ahmet Evin (PDF at archnet.org)

• Expansive Discourses: Residential Urban Sprawl in Calgary, 1945-1978 (Edmonton: AU Press, c2009), by Max Foran (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The Mysteries of the Great City: The Politics of Urban Design, 1877-1937 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1993), by John D. Fairfield (PDF at Ohio State)

• Complex Terrain: Megacities and the Changing Character of Urban Operations (Quantico, VA: Marine Corps University Press, 2019), ed. by Benjamin M. Jensen, Henrik Breitenbauch, and Brandon Valeriano (PDF with commentary at usmcu.edu)

• Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s (originally published 2001; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Carolyn S. Loeb (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Planned-Unit Development with a Homes Association (Washington: GPO, 1964), by United States Federal Housing Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• Old Roads From the Heart of New York: Journeys Today by Ways of Yesterday, Within Thirty Miles Around the Battery (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915), by Sarah Comstock (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Westchester: The American Suburb (New York: Fordham University Press; Yonkers: Hudson River Museum, c2006), ed. by Roger G. Panetta, contrib. by Kenneth T. Jackson (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street (London: UCL Press, c2015), ed. by Laura Vaughan (PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press)

• Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street (London: UCL Press, c2015), ed. by Laura Vaughan (PDF and HTML with commentary at UCL Press)

• The Midlander (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Duke in the Suburbs (London: Ward Lock and Co., 1909), by Edgar Wallace (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Adventures of a Suburbanite (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1911), by Ellis Parker Butler, illust. by A. B. Phelan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Diary of a Nobody, by George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith
  • illustrated HTML at pseudopodium.org
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading
• The Diary of a Nobody (based on the 1892 Arrowsmith edition and the 1888-1889 Punch serial), by George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Suburban Sketches, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• The Booming of Acre Hill, and Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life, by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by Charles Dana Gibson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Women (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1925), by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text)
• Coming Up for Air (1939), by George Orwell (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1988), by Ann Durkin Keating (PDF at Ohio State)

• Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press and MIT Press, 1962), by Sam Bass Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Westchester: The American Suburb (New York: Fordham University Press; Yonkers: Hudson River Museum, c2006), ed. by Roger G. Panetta, contrib. by Kenneth T. Jackson (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Westchester: The American Suburb (New York: Fordham University Press; Yonkers: Hudson River Museum, c2006), ed. by Roger G. Panetta, contrib. by Kenneth T. Jackson (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• The Suburbs of Cincinnati: Sketches, Historical and Descriptive (Cincinnati: G. E. Stevens and Co., 1870), by Sidney D. Maxwell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Making a Middle Landscape (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1991), by Peter G. Rowe (PDF files with commentary at MIT)

• Post-Suburbia: Government and Politics in the Edge Cities (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Jon C. Teaford (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The New Deal in the Suburbs: A History of the Greenbelt Town Program, 1935-1954 (Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 1971), by Joseph L. Arnold (PDF at Ohio State)

• Boston: A Guide Book (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1903), by Edwin M. Bacon (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Forced Migration and Separated Families: Everyday Insecurities and Transnational Strategies (Cham: Springer, c2023), ed. by Marja Tiilikainen, Johanna Hiitola, Abdirashid A. Ismail, and Jaana Palander (PDF and Epub with commentary at springer.com)

• Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c2013), by Alexander Betts (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Press)

• Burundi, Forced Relocation: New Patterns of Human Rights Abuses, by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Permitting Bataan Death March Prisoners to Sue in U.S. Court of Claims: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 3188 (Washington: GPO, 1984), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c2018), by Abigail G. H. Manzella (PDF at Ohio State)

• Human Migration (originally published as Scientific Geography #7; c1986), by W. A. V. Clark (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)

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