Overview
- Examines the global-rural relationship of migration that shapes rural place
- Demonstrates the mental health issues and emotional labour experienced by migrants
- Identifies a rural-migration nexus that sees a relationship between international migration and localised rural spaces
Part of the book series: Rethinking Rural (RR)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This edited collection aims to examine the global-rural relationship of migration that shapes rural places. It does this by acknowledging that to understand the impact of the international migration-global nexus, it is essential to explore how it is experienced at a local level - in the context of this book, rural regions. Focusing on agribusiness and rural development, as well as the othering of international migrants and the shifting boundaries of belonging in rural spaces, the chapters in this book examine how globalisation, with migration being a constitutive feature, influences different rural contexts in the ‘Global North’ and the impact this has on migrant populations. Chapters demonstrate the harsh lived experiences/realities characterised by mental health issues and emotional labour for migrants, occupational health and safety issues in the workplace and experiences of exclusion and racism from ‘host’ communities. These chapters taken together identify a rural-migration nexus where the relationship between international migration and localised rural spaces are mutually constitutive.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nathan Kerrigan is Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University, UK. Nathan's research interests and publications centre around themes of community, space, and place. He is especially interested in the way these different thematic areas impact and influence constructions of rurality as well the tensions and conflicts they produce in rural areas.
Philomena de Lima is a professor of Applied Sociology and Rural Studies at UHI Inverness, UK and was the Director for Centre for Remote and Rural Studies until 2019. She is the co- editor for ‘Rethinking Rural’ Palgrave -MacMillan book series and has recently been appointed as a member of the Scottish Government’s Migration and Population Expert Advisory Group.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Rural-Migration Nexus
Book Subtitle: Global Problems, Rural Issues
Editors: Nathan Kerrigan, Philomena de Lima
Series Title: Rethinking Rural
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18042-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18041-5Published: 12 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18044-6Published: 13 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18042-2Published: 11 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2730-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2730-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 227
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, Globalization, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology of Work, Agricultural Economics, Human Geography