Migration into rural areas : theories and issues /
Migration into rural areas : theories and issues /
edited by Paul Boyle and Keith Halfacree.
- viii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Migration, rurality and the post-productivist countryside -- Studying counterurbanisation and the rural population turnaround -- Counterurbanisation and social class -- Contrasting the counterurbanisation experience in European nations -- Concentrated immigration, restructuring and the 'selective' deconcentration of the United States population -- The hypothesis of welfare-led migration to rural areas: the Australian case -- Inside looking out; outside looking in. Different experiences of cultural competence in rural lifestyles -- Indigeneity, identity and locality: perspectives on Swaledale -- Class, colonisation and lifestyle strategies in Gower -- Middle class mobility, rural communities and the politics of exclusion -- Neo-tribes, migration and the post-productivist countryside -- Counterurbanisation, fragmentation and the paradox of the rural idyll -- Planning by numbers: migration and statistical governance -- Neglected gender dimensions of rural social restructuring -- Migration into rural communities: questioning the language of counterurbanisation -- Migration into rural areas: a collective behaviour framework? -- List of illustrations -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
0471969893 9780471969891
97050257
Urban-rural migration--Congresses
HB1956. / M54 1998
307.26
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Migration, rurality and the post-productivist countryside -- Studying counterurbanisation and the rural population turnaround -- Counterurbanisation and social class -- Contrasting the counterurbanisation experience in European nations -- Concentrated immigration, restructuring and the 'selective' deconcentration of the United States population -- The hypothesis of welfare-led migration to rural areas: the Australian case -- Inside looking out; outside looking in. Different experiences of cultural competence in rural lifestyles -- Indigeneity, identity and locality: perspectives on Swaledale -- Class, colonisation and lifestyle strategies in Gower -- Middle class mobility, rural communities and the politics of exclusion -- Neo-tribes, migration and the post-productivist countryside -- Counterurbanisation, fragmentation and the paradox of the rural idyll -- Planning by numbers: migration and statistical governance -- Neglected gender dimensions of rural social restructuring -- Migration into rural communities: questioning the language of counterurbanisation -- Migration into rural areas: a collective behaviour framework? -- List of illustrations -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
0471969893 9780471969891
97050257
Urban-rural migration--Congresses
HB1956. / M54 1998
307.26