Flight from the land? Migration flows of the rural population of the Netherlands, 1850-1940

In this article, we aim to analyze the residential options of the rural population of the Netherlands in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century from the perspective of push factors operating at different levels: the household, the municipality and the region. We contrast the decision to stay with moving in several ways: within the municipality or its immediate surroundings, within the region, to a different region, to a city or abroad. The backgrounds of these differences in migration paths are found in 1) individual characteristics like age and previous migrations, in 2) household ba... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Kok, Jan
Mandemakers, Kees
Mönkediek, Bastian
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Verlag/Hrsg.: Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
Schlagwörter: exode rural / famille / émigration / Pays-Bas / urbanisation / rural migration / family / emigration / Netherlands / urbanization
Sprache: unknown
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Link(s) : http://eps.revues.org/5631

In this article, we aim to analyze the residential options of the rural population of the Netherlands in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century from the perspective of push factors operating at different levels: the household, the municipality and the region. We contrast the decision to stay with moving in several ways: within the municipality or its immediate surroundings, within the region, to a different region, to a city or abroad. The backgrounds of these differences in migration paths are found in 1) individual characteristics like age and previous migrations, in 2) household background like the socio-economic status of the head, the composition of the membership, its religious affiliation, and in 3) local and regional contextual variables, such as population density, type of agriculture, inheritance practices and non-agricultural employment. We make use of the Historical Sample of the Netherlands, a large database with detailed information on more than 34000 families living in the Dutch countryside between 1850 and 1940 and propose a competing risks survival analysis model to understand the balance between individual and contextual factors in migration decisions of the rural population. ; Dans cet article, nous cherchons à analyser les options résidentielles de la population rurale des Pays-Bas de la fin du XIXème au début du XXème siècle en considérant des facteurs d’incitation opérant à différents niveaux : le ménage, la municipalité et la région. Nous comparons la décision de rester avec celle de migrer de plusieurs façons : au sein de la municipalité ou de ses environs immédiats, dans la région, dans une autre région, dans une ville ou à l’étranger. Le choix de ces « chemins migratoires » s’explique par 1) des caractéristiques individuelles telles que l’âge et les migrations précédentes, 2) des caractéristiques du ménage, telles que le statut socio-économique du chef de ménage, sa composition, son appartenance religieuse, 3) des variables contextuelles locales et régionales, telles que la ...