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The Rural-Migration Nexus

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Much of the previous research on the international migration-global nexus has not considered the role of the rural. This necessitates a need to explore how it is experienced in rural regions. Within this Introduction, the authors provide an outline of what they have coined the ‘rural-migration nexus’. The connections between the rural and the global are discussed, providing a contextual backdrop for analysis of how migration is understood through contemporary patterns of globalisation. A case is made for approaching rural migration through a translocal lens. This establishes the theoretical framework for examining how rural migration is relational with wider processes of global migratory flows and some of the issues and problems this arises for migrants moving between their sending and receiving destinations.

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Kerrigan, N., de Lima, P. (2023). Introduction. In: Kerrigan, N., de Lima, P. (eds) The Rural-Migration Nexus. Rethinking Rural. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18042-2_1

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