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Moving Out to Move Up: Higher Education as a Mobility Pathway in the Rural South

Ryan Parsons
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences May 2022, 8 (3) 208-229; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.3.09
Ryan Parsons
aPhD candidate in sociology and social policy at Princeton University, United States
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vol. 8 no. 3 208-229
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.3.09

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2377-8253
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  • Published online May 12, 2022.

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© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Parsons, Ryan. 2022. “Moving Out to Move Up: Higher Education as a Mobility Pathway in the Rural South” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(3): 208–29. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.3.09. Kathy Edin, Mitch Duneier, Matthew Archer, John Maldonado, Parijat Chakrabarti, Jean Nava, and participants in the RSF conference for this issue provided valuable input into the development of this article. I am deeply appreciative to participants and mentors in my field site for their insights and other contributions. I am also grateful to the editors and three anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions. Direct correspondence to: Ryan Parsons, at rjparson@princeton.edu, 107 Wallace Hall, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. aPhD candidate in sociology and social policy at Princeton University, United States
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    Ryan Parsons, (rjparson{at}princeton.edu)
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    • RACE, SPACE, AND MOBILITY
    • THE CASE
    • THE OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURE OF CENTRAL DELTA COUNTY
    • IMAGINING MOBILITY
    • THE COSTS OF LEAVING HOME
    • THE EXPERIENCE OF RURAL BLACK ASPIRERS IN ELITE SPACES
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