Rural Europe and the world: Globalization and rural development (Editorial)

Woods, Michael; McDonagh, John

doi:10.2478/v10091-012-0001-z

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“…This relates to the fixity and fluidity of globalising rural places (Milbourne & Kitchen 2014), meaning that places of origin and destination are socially constructed and 'never completed' (Thrift 1999), as they consist of intersecting power relations (Massey 1994;Hudson 2004). Woods & McDonagh (2011) argue that globalisation mainly concerns refashioning relations across space on a concrete day-to-day basis. Through the social and economic relations of individuals, groups, and societies, the global and the local reshape each other in negotiation rather than in competition, creating an unequal geography of globalisation.…”

Section: Changing Rural Populationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Globalising Swedish countrysides? A relational approach to rural immigrant restaurateurs with refugee backgrounds

Eimermann

Karlsson

2018

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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The main purpose of the article is to connect rural immigrants' business ventures and development in Sweden to relational perspectives on their proximate and distant family and co-ethnic networks at structural and individual levels. Accordingly, the authors employ a relational approach and draw on in-depth interviews. In the context of urban-rural relationships' meanings for the restaurateurs' business benefits and constraints, they address two questions: (1) What does embeddedness in proximate and distant family and co-ethnic networks mean for the interviewed restaurateurs and for their businesses? and (2) How do previous and anticipated transitions in the restaurateurs' families influence their business decisions and migration trajectories? The results suggest that the interviewees employed transnational dimensions in their social embeddedness and that they maintained material and emotional relationships with their countries of origin. This relational approach thus contributes to a better understanding of what the studied businesses mean for the entrepreneurs and the selected localities. The restaurateurs contribute to a globalisation of Swedish countrysides, but their socio-economic potential for countering rural depopulation in Sweden is not fully realised. Additionally, the study illuminates how individuals influence, and are influenced by, place-to-place mobilities on a daily basis and during their life course. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Changing Rural Populationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Globalising Swedish countrysides? A relational approach to rural immigrant restaurateurs with refugee backgrounds

Eimermann

Karlsson

2018

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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“…Bock et al (2016) claimed to address migrants as actors of rural development, bringing along human capital. However, Woods and McDonagh (2011) consider their potential to contribute to rural development as under-utilised. With regard to return migrants, King (2015) stresses their role as both investors and innovators.…”

Section: Return Migrationmentioning

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Status Quo and Potential of Remigration Among Transylvanian Saxons to Rural Romania

Kordel

Lutsch²

2018

European Countryside

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Return migration recently became of scientific interest on an intra-European scale. As remigrants bring along various forms of capital, this form of migration is frequently considered as an opportunity to revitalize rural communities. Since Romania entered the EU in 2007, a certain number of Transylvanian Saxons, i.e., ethnic Germans, who emigrated to Germany in the 1980s and 1990s, temporarily or permanently returned to rural Romania. By means of qualitative interviews and a quantitative survey among returnees and potential re-emigrants, this study provides empirical insights to the status quo and the potential of this phenomenon. A particular emphasis is given to their everyday practices and implications on the Transylvanian community, mostly aiming at preservation of the cultural heritage.

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“…Las mujeres reconocen el concepto de rural pero consideran muy difícil construir una definición tal y como también señalan los especialistas en ciencias sociales (Aldomà, 2009;García, 2011;Woods, 2011). A veces, su primera respuesta es una pregunta para nosotras, para la entrevistadora: "Pero, cuando dices rural, ¿a qué te refieres?…”

Section: ¿Qué Es El Medio Rural?unclassified

Mujeres rurales profesionales: su evaluación del medio rural en Cataluña y Galicia

Ramón¹,

Ferré²,

Porto³

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Resumen: Dentro del contexto de las nuevas ruralidades algunas mujeres profesionales han decidido quedarse en el mundo rural para desarrollar su propio proyecto profesional y vital. Es un fenómeno nuevo dado el proceso constante de emigración rural hacia las ciudades que España ha sufrido en el pasado. La investigación la hemos llevado a cabo en zonas rurales de Cataluña y Galicia a través de entrevistas en profundidad. Nuestro objetivo es captar cómo estas mujeres profesionales perciben no solo el mundo rural sino también a las mujeres rurales actuales. Su percepción, fruto de un proceso de formación y experiencia de vida en otros lugares, urbanos, se puede convertir en un espejo para las generaciones más jóvenes de mujeres.Palabras clave: Mujeres profesionales, medio rural, Cataluña, Galicia. professional rural women: their evaluation of rural areas in catalonia and galiciaAbstract: Within the context of the new ruralities reshaped by globalization processes some educated women decide to stay at the countryside where they develop their own life project. It is a relatively new phenomenon taking into account the steady process of female migration from rural areas that has taken place in Spain for decades. Through in-depth interviews we attempt to set out how rural women perceive themselves and assess rurality nowadays in rural areas of two Spanish regions, Catalonia and Galicia. Women's critical perceptions of the new ruralities, created by a process of education and urban life experiences, may become a mirror for younger (female) generations.

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Rural Europe and the world: Globalization and rural development (Editorial)

Cited by 69 publications

References 16 publications

Globalising Swedish countrysides? A relational approach to rural immigrant restaurateurs with refugee backgrounds

Globalising Swedish countrysides? A relational approach to rural immigrant restaurateurs with refugee backgrounds

Status Quo and Potential of Remigration Among Transylvanian Saxons to Rural Romania

Mujeres rurales profesionales: su evaluación del medio rural en Cataluña y Galicia

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