Residential Trajectories of Immigrants and their Descendants in the UK

Adam Anthony , University of St Andrews
Hill Kulu, University of St Andrews
Urška Demšar, University of St Andrews

In this study, we will apply multistate modeling in a novel way to decompose internal migration flows within the United Kingdom. We will use data from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (UKHLS) to examine the internal migration patterns of immigrants and their descendants and to calculate the time they will spend in various locations and settlement types in the UK. We will first define our states, then estimate the rate at which individuals transition between those states, and lastly, use those transition rates to estimate the time we can expect individuals to spend in each state. An initial analysis of our data has shown heterogeneity in residential mobility between immigrant groups as well as differences across other covariates. More work is needed to unpick these effects, and as such, this paper will investigate variation across different immigrant groups and generations as well as differences within groups across the life course. Comparisons will also be drawn to the native-born population (those with two parents born in the UK).

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 Presented in Session 100. Heterogeneity of Internal Migration Patterns