migrancyn.

1924 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 30 129 There are two factors responsible.., namely, a lack of understanding of what hobos or migrants are, and..a lack of insight into the causes that prompt migrancy.

1941 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 14 494 Migrancy seems to provide fewer values in living than does permanent residence.

1951 Econ. Jrnl. 61 157 A valuable examination of migrancy, land tenure and cattle ownership [in Africa].

1974 A. Cohen Urban Ethnicity p. xiii Ethnicity..is often associated with migrancy, and is taken to be a stage in the adaptation of the group to its new environment and in the final assimilation of its members with the new society.

1988 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 8 Sept. 14 Analysts point to a thorny combination of illness, mobility, migrancy, learning disabilities, the breakdown of the family, television, and poverty.