Migration in Times of Economic Growth and Recession

Abstract

The industrial cities of the twentieth century were intimately dependent on and characterized by migration. This chapter focuses on describing and analyzing migration flows and migrant characteristics in relation to the general economic development of the industrial city of Landskrona. During the first decades of the century, migration tended to be circular between the city and the countryside. Migrants were predominantly young, and the flows reflected volatile industrial development. After World War II, expanding industries required laborers, and inflow from Sweden was supplemented by labor immigration from abroad. At the same time, middle-class families moved to suburbs outside the city. With the industrial crises of the 1970s, out-migration was larger than in-migration. It was mainly white-collar groups that left the town since unskilled and lower-skilled workers had few alternatives. From the mid-1990s, an economic recovery took place resulting in a positive net-migration. This time, in-migrants increasingly came from non-Western countries.

Keywords

migration; industrial city; twentieth century; growth and recession; migrant characteristics; Sweden

Published in

Title: Urban Lives: An Industrial City and Its People During the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780197761090, eISBN: 9780197761113Publisher: Oxford University Press

SLU Authors

• Svensson, Patrick

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Economic History


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197761090.003.0004

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/131267