The ‘green green grass of home’? Return migration to rural Ireland

Laoire, Caitríona Ní

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2007.01.005

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“…Indeed, Halfacree and Boyle (1998, p. 9) posit that ''migration of people to the more rural areas of the developed world… forms perhaps the central dynamic in the creation of any post-productivist countryside.'' More recently, case studies from elsewhere in North America and around the world documenting the phenomenon have been published, including ones from Spain (Paniagua 2002;Elizburu 2007), France (Buller and Hoggart 1994), Scotland (Short and Stockdale 1999;Stockdale et al 2000), Ireland (Mahon 2007;Ní Laoire 2007), The Netherlands (van Dam et al 2002), Estonia (Tammaru et al 2004), Canada (Dahms and McComb 1999), Australia (Curry et al 2001, Gurran andBlakely 2007), New Zealand (Woods 2010), and Latin America more generally (Ferras 2007). Nepal (2007) even employs the counterurbanization literature to explain emerging rural settlement patterns related to tourism in the Annapurna region of Nepal.…”

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Amenity migration: diverse conceptualizations of drivers, socioeconomic dimensions, and emerging challenges

2009

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Rural communities throughout the postindustrial world are in the midst of a significant transition, sometimes referred to as rural restructuring, as traditional land uses, economic activities, and social arrangements transition to those associated with ''post-productivist'' or ''multifunctional'' landscapes. Amenity migration, the movement of people based on the draw of natural and/or cultural amenities, can be thought of as both driver and implication of this transition, resulting in significant changes in the ownership, use, and governance of rural lands, as well as in the composition and socioeconomic dynamics of rural communities. In concert with other social, economic and political processes, amenity migration is contributing to the fundamental transformation of rural communities throughout the world. This paper presents a review of the social science literature related to the concept of amenity migration, focusing on the ways in which it has been conceptualized, theorized, and documented by different communities of scholars. We then profile and summarize diverse perspectives on drivers and socioeconomic impacts, highlighting emerging challenges and opportunities related to this type of migration occurring at multiple scales and in multiple sites. The paper also identifies and discusses particular areas where further research is needed.

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Amenity migration: diverse conceptualizations of drivers, socioeconomic dimensions, and emerging challenges

2009

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“…In the Irish context, three studies are of particular interests: Gmelch (1985 and, McGrath (1991) and Ni Laoire (2007). In 1977-1978, Gmelch (1985 and collaborators interviewed 606 Irish migrants who had lived abroad for at least two years and then returned to Ireland and settled down in small communities in the west of the country.…”

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“…Ni Laoire (2007 and2008) collected 33 life narratives of migrants who left Ireland between the late 1970s and early 1990s and returned home in the mid 1990s/beginning of the 21th century. Ni Laoire (2008:40) concluded that "narratives of 'not quite belonging' recur [red] among return migrants".…”

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Social Isolation, Loneliness and Return Migration: Evidence from Older Irish Adults

Barrett¹,

Mosca²

2013

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…One dominant coding, scholars have noted, is that of the 'rural idyll' (Valentine, 1997). According to the ethos of the 'rural idyll', remote places are understood as safe, free, close to nature, peaceful, innocent and healthy communities where "everybody knows everybody" (see Leyshon, 2008;Little and Leyshon, 2003;Matthews, Taylor, Sherwood, Tucker and Limb, 2000;Ni Laoire, 2007;Rye, 2006). Indeed, such qualities overlap with and inform constructions of the 'rural childhood idyll' (Jones, 1997(Jones, , 2000(Jones, , 2007, where it is assumed that the countryside is the 'natural' place of childhood (Valentine, 1997).…”

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Playing in the woods: youth, leisure and the performance of gender relations in rural Newfoundland

Norman

Power

Dupré

2011

Annals of Leisure Research

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Based on qualitative interviews and focus groups with youth (12-24 years) living in rural, coastal Newfoundland, Canada, we examine how leisure practices within this context served to reproduce and naturalise localised gender relations. More specifically, we argue that the participants drew upon dominant discursive constructions of rural leisure to reiteratively enact a binary distinction between the 'town' as a space of constraint, youthadult tensions, and consumerism in contrast to the freedom and privacy of the 'woods'. This dichotomy was mapped onto gender binaries, where the town was coded as feminine and the woods masculine. We argue that these constructions served to mark the boundaries of normative gender leisure practices in the production of embodied gender subjectivities.

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The ‘green green grass of home’? Return migration to rural Ireland

Cited by 151 publications

References 22 publications

Amenity migration: diverse conceptualizations of drivers, socioeconomic dimensions, and emerging challenges

Amenity migration: diverse conceptualizations of drivers, socioeconomic dimensions, and emerging challenges

Social Isolation, Loneliness and Return Migration: Evidence from Older Irish Adults

Playing in the woods: youth, leisure and the performance of gender relations in rural Newfoundland

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