Abstract
Most studies of social mobility have not serious attention to the migration to the city in spite of it's importance from the point of view of the rural-urban network. ln some fields of study, however, the migration from rural to urban has been a big theme; some studies emphasize the migrants formed the blue-collar workers' class, other studies emphasize they formed the urban white-collar workers' class. Both emphasizes arc one-sided and misleading. It is still not obvious about what part of migrants became middle class and what pan became working class or how different was the social mobility between new arrivals and the original urban population in the city. This paper aims to clarify these problems in the case of Tokyo with quantitative data, focusing on two period; inter and postwar.
There were two routes to the city; move for school and move for job. A family's social stratification influenced which route sons took. During the former period it was not more difficult for new arrivals to enter the high status employment than the original urban population as the education levels of the two groups were almost equal and more males from rural backgrounds entered higher education than did those from Tokyo, However, during the latter an educational difference existed between the urban and rural workers.
