2020
DOI: 10.5565/rev/dag.588
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Rural out-migration and return: perspectives on the role of the everyday reality and the idyll in Ireland

Abstract: The aim of this article is to add to understandings of the rural idyll as an influence on return migration. Interviews were conducted with thirty-four first generation rural returnees in Ireland and their responses were analysed in depth. Unemployment and constraints on career and personal fulfilment influenced migration overseas, usually, to a major city. Consciousness of the loss of features of the idyll emerged in adapting to life in the destination area. Memories of the positive features of family and rura… Show more

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