Translocal Ruralism: Mobility and Connectivity in European Rural Spaces

Book Overview

1: Translocal ruralism: mobility and connectivity in European rural spaces: Charlotta Hedberg and Renato Miguel do Carmo.- I: Linking nodes: people and networks connecting places: 2: Between margimalisation and urbanisation: mobilities and social change in Southern Portugal: Renato Miguel do Carmo and Sofia Santos.- 3: The ties that bind? Spatial (im)mobilities and the transformation of rural-urban connections: Hendrike Rau.- 4: 'The rural' intervening in the lives of internal and international migrants: migrants, biographies and translocal pratices: Susanne Stenbacka.- 5: Youth 'settles' by mobility: ethnography of a Portuguese village: Vanda Aparecida da Silva.- 6: Migration dynamics in Romania and the counter-urbanisation process: a case study of Bucharest's rural-urban fringe: Liliana Guran and Michael Sofer.- 7: Local embeddedness and global links in rural areas: euclidean and relational space in business networks: Alexandre Dubois, Andrew Copus, Moa Hedstr m.- II: International mobilities: a tension between scales: 8: When the world goes rural: transnational potentials of international migration in rural Swedish labour markets: Charlotta Hedberg, Gunnel Forsberg and Ali Najib.- 9: Foreigners, neighbours, immigrants: translocal mobilities in rural areas in Spain: Luis Camarero, Rosario Sampedro and Jes s Olivia.- 10: Transnational immigration in rural Greece: analysing the different mobilities of Albanian immigrants: Apostolos Papadopoulos.- 11: Golaka Dhama: a translocal Hare Krishna community: Louise Meijering.- 12: Boundary crossings: migration, belonging/'un-belongin" in rural Scotland: Philomena de Lima

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400723148
• ISBN13: 9789400723146
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"