Short-distance migration, circles and flows: Movement to and from Ullensaker according to the population census lists of 1865

Abstract

This article arose from the ‘Ullensaker research project’ of the Institute of History of the University of Oslo (supported by the Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities), which has as one of its objectives the application of micro-historical methods and electronic data processing techniques to social history. The article examines how far it is possible to reconstruct the migration patterns of a local population by detailed study of place-of-birth data in a nominative population census, and discusses some aspects of short-distance migration as a historical, sociological and socio-psychological phenomenon.

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Sivert Langholm

Sivert Langholm, born 1927, dosent in history, University of Oslo, 1974. Has written on historical method and studied political participation in the nineteenth century. Engaged in social history research as leader of the ‘Ullensaker project’.