Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Study of the Changing Socio-Economic Landscape of Nonmetropolitan America

9627842密尔沃基威斯康星州立大学朱迪思·肯尼·里纳·高斯博士学位论文改进奖支持对蒙大拿州一个非大都市县的移民的研究。调查人员提出，本案中发生的移民类型在财富和迁入移民的动机方面不同于来自大都市地区的更常见的移民模式。他们将把移民的来源、动机和社会经济特征与这些模式进行比较，这一过程被称为“农村中产阶级化”，这是英国研究过去20年或许类似的英国经历时最常用的一个短语。他们还将就移民在公共和私人资源所有权和使用方面的结果比较蒙大拿州和英国的经验。学生打算利用人口普查记录，房地产销售记录，以及对外来移民和该县其他居民的调查问卷和访谈。这项研究反映了这样一个事实：由于专业人士的涌入，美国西部的某些地区正在迅速变化，他们要么在远离实际客户或市场的地方工作，要么在与工作相关的住所之外花费大量时间和金钱。美国的地理文献并没有从文化和社会的角度对这些变化进行过多的研究。这项研究对于解释基于一个案例的这些趋势，以及促进这一领域的进一步研究都应该是重要的。

SBR-9627842 Judith Kenny Rina Ghose U. Wisconsin, Milwaukee This doctoral-dissertation improvement award supports a study of in-migrants to a non-metropolitan county in Montana. The investigators propose that the kind of migration occurring in this case differs from more common patterns of migration from metropolitan areas in the wealth and the motivations of the in-migrants. They will compare migrants' origins, motivations, and socio-economic characteristics to these patterns in a process that has been called "rural gentrification," a phrase most often used in British research on a perhaps-similar British experience in the past 20 years. They will also compare the Montana and the British experience in terms of the results of in-migration on public and private resource ownership and use. The Student intends to make use of Census records, real-estate-sales records, and questionnaires and interviews with in-migrants and other inhabitants of the county. The research reflects the fact that particular areas of the American West are changing rapidly because of an influx of professionals who can either work far away from their actual clients or markets or who can spend much time and money away from their work-related residences. The geographic literature in the United States does not include much study of these changes from a cultural and social perspective. This study should be important both in interpreting these trends based on one case, and in catalyzing further research in this area.