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Moving nearer to heaven : the illusions and disillusions of migrants to scenic rural places

Author: Patrick C Jobes
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.
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Jobes, Patrick C.
Moving nearer to heaven.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000
(OCoLC)654600829
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Patrick C Jobes
ISBN: 0275966895 9780275966898
OCLC Number: 42708095
Description: xiv, 242 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: People Who Migrate, People Who Stay: An Overview of Data and Theories about Migration --
Theoretical Orientations about Why People Stayed or Moved Away from Southwest Montana --
Methods --
Newcomers and Changes in Lifestyles --
Economics and Migration --
Age, Sex, Marital Status and Satisfaction --
Conflict Between Newcomers and Old-Timers: Confusion about Being Local or Cosmopolitan --
Losses and Gains, Alienation and Transformation: Aesop Meets Durkheim, Simmel, Parsons and Thomas --
The Future of Rapidly Growing Small Towns in High Natural-Amenity Areas.
Responsibility: Patrick C. Jobes.

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