International Migration and Rural Areas

While immigrants are still predominantly choosing urban areas to locate to there is now increasing evidence of immigration to rural areas which poses its own challenges for those relocating from the scarcity of high quality jobs to the provision of public and private services. Addressing the shortcomings in current research this book employs an innovative approach by exploring this relationship from a cross-national comparative global perspective. It draws lessons from case studies across a range of geographical and political contexts including Canada the USA Ireland Scotland Greece and Russia. Bringing together migration experts from a range of academic disciplines International Migration and Rural Areas contributes to conceptual developments and also identifies policy concerns which can be pursued at national sub-national and supra-national levels. As such it will appeal to policy makers as well as scholars across a range of disciplines including geography politics demography social policy sociology and anthropology.