Gender and Rural Migration

<p><em>Gender and Rural Migration: Realities Conflict and Change</em> explores the intersection of gender migration and rurality in 21st-century Western and non-Western contexts. In a world where heightened globalization is making borders increasingly porous rural communities form part of the migration nexus. While rural out-migration is well-documented the gendered dynamics of rural in-migration - including return rural migration and the connectivity of rural-urban/global-local spaces - are often overlooked. In this collection well-grounded case studies involving diverse groups of people in rural communities in Australia Austria Brazil Canada China Norway the United States and Uzbekistan are organized into three themes: contesting rurality and belonging women’s empowerment and social relations and sexualities and mobilities. As demonstrated in this anthology rural areas are contested sites among queer youth same-sex couples working women young mothers migrant farm workers temporary foreign workers in-migrants and return migrants. The rich expositions of various narratives and statistical data in multidisciplinary perspectives by emerging and established scholars claim gender and rurality as nodal points in contemporary migration discourse. </p>