Migration Into Rural Areas - Theories and Issues

Reviews the theoretical concept of "counterurbanization", and through case study research explores the demographic, social, cultural and spatial aspects of people who move into rural areas. The book provides a summary of "state of the art" research in this field of population geography.

List of contents

Migration, Rurality and the Post-Productivist Countryside (K. Halfacree & P. Boyle).
 
Studying Counterurbanisation and the Rural Population Turnaround (T. Champion).
 
Counterurbanisation and Social Class (T. Fielding).
 
Contrasting the Counterurbanisation Experience in European Nations (T. Kontuly).
 
Concentrated Immigration, Restructuring and the 'Selective' Deconcentration of the United States Population (W. Frey & K. Johnson).
 
The Hypothesis of Welfare-Led Migration to Rural Areas: The Australian Case (G. Hugo & M. Bell).
 
Inside Looking Out; Outside Looking in. Different Experiences of Cultural Competence in Rural Lifestyles (P. Cloke, et al.).
 
Indigeneity, Identity and Locality: Perspectives on Swaledale (S. Fielding).
 
Class, Colonisation and Lifestyle Strategies in Gower (P. Cloke, et al.).
 
Middle Class Mobility, Rural Communities and the Politics of Exclusion (J. Murdoch & G. Day).
 
Neo-Tribes, Migration and the Post-Productivist Countryside (K. Halfacree).
 
Counterurbanisation, Fragmentation and the Paradox of the Rural Idyll (M. Gorton, et al.).
 
Planning by Numbers: Migration and Statistical Governance (S. Abram, et al.).
 
Neglected Gender Dimensions of Rural Social Restructuring (J. Agg & M. Phillips).
 
Migration into Rural Communities: Questioning the Language of Counterurbanisation (J. Allen & E. Mooney).
 
Migration into Rural Areas: A Collective Behaviour Framework? (P. Boyle and K. Halfacree).
 
List of Illustrations.
 
List of Tables.
 
List of Contributors.
 
Index.

Product details

• Authors: Boyle, Paul Boyle, Paul (University of Leeds) Halfacree Boyle, Paul Halfacree Boyle, Pj Boyle, BOYLE PAUL HALFACREE KEITH, Halfacree
• Assisted by: Pau Boyle (Editor), Paul Boyle (Editor), Boyle Paul (Editor), Halfacree (Editor), Halfacree (Editor), Keith Halfacree (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.05.1998
• EAN: 9780471969891
• ISBN: 978-0-471-96989-1
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Anthropogeographie, Geowissenschaften, Geographie, Geography, Kulturgeographie, Earth Sciences, Human Geography, Economic & Applied Geology, Angewandte u. ökonomische Geologie