Unravelling stories of pro-rural migration: From the pre-migration context to the post-migration experience

IF 6.5 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International Pub Date : 2025-02-16 DOI:10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103328

María Jesús Rivera

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Abstract

In line with a conceptualisation of pro-rural migration as an open-ended process that extends to the post-migration experience, this paper explores how pro-rural migrants elaborate the decision to move to a rural place, how they initiate their relocation and how they experience life in the new place. To do this, the paper analyses the narratives of pro-rural migrants regarding their migration process in two different contexts of rurality in Spain: the region of Castilla y León and a coastal area in Andalusia. Thus, the paper reconstructs migrants' narratives by connecting the pre-migration context with the post-migration experience. The paper reflects how pro-rural migration, and the post-migration experience can play different roles in migrants' lives, depending on their contextuality. In our case: an old dream, the unexpected, salvation and the search for a way of life. By identifying the differences and common elements, the paper contributes to a fuller comprehension of pro-rural migration as a dynamic process and to a better understanding of the meanings of counter-urbanisation.

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Habitat International Multiple-

CiteScore

10.50

自引率

10.30%

发文量

151

审稿时长

38 days

期刊介绍： Habitat International is dedicated to the study of urban and rural human settlements: their planning, design, production and management. Its main focus is on urbanisation in its broadest sense in the developing world. However, increasingly the interrelationships and linkages between cities and towns in the developing and developed worlds are becoming apparent and solutions to the problems that result are urgently required. The economic, social, technological and political systems of the world are intertwined and changes in one region almost always affect other regions.