Migration, Community and Identity - Countercultural Lifestyle Migration to Rural Wales, 1965-1980

Migration, Community and Identity analyses experiences of migration to rural Wales from 1965-1980. It focuses on people who were part of the era's counterculture, looking for an escape from mainstream society.

List of contents

Introduction
PART 1
Motivations
1 Why leave? Reasons for joining the countercultural migration
2 Making the move: why Wales?
3 Finding a home: mainstream or alternative?
PART 2
Practices
4 Living the dream? The reality of self-sufficiency
5 Making money: employment and entrepreneurship
6 Away from work: hobbies and interests
PART 3
Belonging
7 Fitting into a new community
8 Dych chi'n siarad Cymraeg? Living with the Welsh language
9 Identity: balancing nation and culture
Conclusion

About the author

Flossie Caerwynt is a Research Associate in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at Aberystwyth University. She has an interest in heritage studies and the impact of the past on the present, with a particular focus on alternative lifestyles and experiments in reimaging society.

Product details

• Authors: Flossie Caerwynt, Flossie (Aberystwyth University) Caerwynt
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032415536
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3241553-6
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Human Geography, Regional Geography