Migration into rural areas :  theories and issues / 
edited by Paul Boyle and Keith Halfacree. 
 - viii, 330 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0471969893 9780471969891 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97050257 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Urban-rural migration--Congresses
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HB1956.  / M54 1998 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>307.26