Youth Migration and Social Advancement: How Young People Manage Emerging Differences between Themselves and their Hometown

‘A one way ticket to the city, please!’ on young women leaving the Swedish peripheral region Västernorrland

“…According to Stockdale (2004) the differences in preferences make the 'minority' feel like foreigners in their own community. Beyond that, Gabriel (2006) notes that these lifestyle differences effectively act as a significant push-factor in rural communities.…”

“…The most common explanations provided for this higher migration rate among women relative men usually relate to economic factors such as education, employment and incomes (Berglund et al, 2005;Corbett, 2007;Carson et al, 2011) with the number of 'non-economic' explanations being far fewer. One study suggests that this higher female migration rate can best be explained by their ability to be more flexible than men, something which is viewed as important to successful participation in the post-industrial labour market (Berglund et al, 2005) while other studies have highlighted the impact gender roles have, more generally, on migration (Stockdale, 2004;Rico Gonz alez and G omez García, 2003;Gabriel, 2006).…”

Construction identitaire et altérité en contexte de mobilité : le cas d’étudiants universitaires originaires de milieux francophones minoritaires au Canada

“…Des recherches auprès de jeunes migrants ont aussi révélé que la mobilité pouvait entraîner une ouverture face aux autres, le développement d'un sentiment d'appartenance envers le milieu d'accueil de même que des changements sur le plan de l'identité personnelle (Fréchette et al, 2004;Gabriel, 2006;Pilote et Magnan, 2012b). De même, une recherche menée auprès d'étudiants européens participant aux programmes Erasmus a montré que la mobilité et la rencontre avec l'autre amenaient non seulement les étudiants à se redéfinir, mais aussi à affirmer davantage leur identité (Cicchelli, 2008).…”

Getting On, Getting Up and Getting Out? Broadening Perspectives on Rural Youth Migration

“…Expectations placed on young people can be overlysimplistic, ascribing truncated identities to young people when, in reality, their social and psychological outlooks, and positions within their communities and in relation to their home towns are far more complex (see Easthope and Gabriel, this issue). Research on rural youth migration would benefit from remaining sensitive to how people imagine themselves, how they see their identities as belonging or being constrained in particular places, or as capable of transformation through moving to other places (see Gabriel, 2006;Gorman-Murray, 2007). Many of those young people expected by their parents to stay on family farms simply may not see much of a future in doing so after leaving school, but then some might return later in their working lives when their priorities change (Stockdale, 2002).…”