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Household Organization and Migration in Nineteenth-Century Italy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

David I. Kertzer  and
Dennis P. Hogan
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Kinship ranks second only to economic factors in social-scientific attempts to explain who migrates, when they move, and where they go. A person’s household circumstances are commonly thought to influence his or her propensity to move, as is the presence of other kin in the same community. Furthermore, the existence and location of kin in other communities are commonly thought to affect both the propensity to move and the choice of destination. Much of the international migration literature, accordingly, focuses on kin chains of migration, while much of the contemporary internal migration literature focuses on rural-urban kinship ties and on the continuing importance of extended kinship ties in societies experiencing high rates of urban-bound migration.

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Social Science History , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , Winter 1990 , pp. 483 - 505
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1990 

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