Kimberley M. Hill, Kim Woodbridge-Dodd, John Horton, Laura Graham, Jane Taylor
{"title":"‘It can Feel Like They've Forgotten you’: Enhancing Older Adult Participation in Urban Regeneration","authors":"Kimberley M. Hill, Kim Woodbridge-Dodd, John Horton, Laura Graham, Jane Taylor","doi":"10.1002/psp.2862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2862","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We present two innovative and impactful interdisciplinary participatory projects highlighting interconnected older adult meanings in relation to UK town centre spaces. We argue older people occupy paradoxical positions within urban policies and planning discourses, highly visibilised as <i>objects</i> of concern, but profoundly marginalised and excluded. Utilising a relational functional significance framework, our findings capture valuable emplaced narratives and embodied lived experiences often wholly underrepresented by 16 older adults (aged 70–88 years). Through live qualitative participatory interview approaches, we identify functionally rich local high street characteristics interconnected with urban histories, memories and identities impacting belonging and well-being, or underpinning participation, exclusions and vulnerabilities. Reflecting on vividly detailed stories and participatory methods within these empirics, we call for an expanded sense of older people's presence and agency, providing their own implications for enhancing urban settings alongside recommendations for increasing their participation within urban regeneration and related research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.2862","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142748993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Villagers' Resistance to Gentrification-Led Displacement in the Guanxi Society: Lessons From Rural Guangzhou, China","authors":"Shizhen Huang, Yuting Liu, Qingyi Chen, Yuanlin Zhang","doi":"10.1002/psp.2860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2860","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The antigentrification campaign has gained global attention because it is crucial for realising social justice, particularly against displacement. Numerous literature has focused on government management, however, there is a dearth of research on the resistance undertaken by the potential displacees. Therefore, this paper explores villagers' survivability when facing displacement threats within China's <i>guanxi</i> society. The <i>guanxi</i> provides a fresh lens on Chinese social development, distiling intergroup relationships into four states that reveal power dynamics within gentrification and enable a nuanced analysis of displacement and resistance. The case of Xiaozhou Village is examined, tracing villagers' living dynamics over the past three decades. The study reveals that villagers have effectively resisted sociocultural displacement pressure and exclusionary displacement by maintaining or preserving their fields. <i>Guanxi</i> provides a perspective for examining how villagers legally possess capital, engage in habitus-driven competition against gentrifiers, and ultimately support their community cohesion. This paper contributes to a deeper understanding of the uneven micro-geopolitics of gentrification and offers insights into the effective mitigation of displacement.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142764457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experiences of Losing and Re-Establishing a ‘Sense of Place’: Insights From Forced Resettlement in Myanmar","authors":"Gillian E. Cornish","doi":"10.1002/psp.2859","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.2859","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Forced resettlement, the process of intentionally displacing and moving people from one location to another, increases impoverishment risks and creates severe and long-lasting economic and psycho-socio-cultural impacts. While these impacts are well established, there is comparatively much less research about ‘loss of place’ after displacement when people are disconnected from a space or spaces that are meaningful to them. Therefore, this paper seeks to address this gap through empirical research on the experiences of residents who were displaced and relocated to an outer township in Yangon, Myanmar, 25 years after the resettlement event. The study examines what it means to lose a sense of place after forced resettlement, and how despite the disorientating impacts of displacement, individuals actively worked to re-establish social and physical connections over time. The paper outlines how displaced residents developed and implemented strategies to re-establish their sense of place and rebuild their community. It finds that multiple levels of strategies were developed—at individual, household, and community scales—to restore social connections and adapt to a new environment. These findings contribute to a deeper understanding of place attachment and community rebuilding, particularly in contexts where displacement is driven by urban development, climate change, or state interventions.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142596612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International and internal migration and the subjective wellbeing of wives left behind in Ghana","authors":"Senanu Kwasi Kutor, Godwin Arku","doi":"10.1002/psp.2858","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.2858","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Husbands' labour migration has ramifications for significant family members, particularly wives left behind. However, limited studies have been conducted to examine the impacts of husbands' migration on women left behind married to international and internal migrants. Drawing on a purposive sampling survey of 298 Ghanaian women (international = 129 and internal = 169) in the Volta Region, we assessed their subjective wellbeing using three dimensions: self-reported health, self-reported satisfaction with life, and self-reported happiness. The results from t-tests show that on average, international women left behind have higher perceived health (3.72), perceived happiness (3.82) and satisfaction with life (3.19). Results from the multivariable binary logistic regression analyses reveal that while no variables predict self-reported health for international women left behind, high frequency of communication is statistically associated with internal women left behind self-assessed health. International women left behind who lived in nuclear households and internal women left behind who reported high wealth quintiles were both statistically associated with satisfaction with life, respectively. While demographic factors (age and duration of marriage) were significant predictors of happiness for international women left behind, neighbourhood type and frequency of communication predicted happiness for internal women left behind. The differences in variables predicting each of the subjective wellbeing dimensions demonstrate the concept's multidimensionality. It also highlights factors influencing subjective wellbeing outcomes of women left behind are not solely due to their husbands' migration. The policy implications of this study are highlighted.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.2858","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142519307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Markus Jokela, Eetu Soini, Michael Laakasuo, Suvi Parikka, Anna Rotkirch, Hans Hämäläinen
{"title":"Residential mobility and social capital: Regional analysis in Finland","authors":"Markus Jokela, Eetu Soini, Michael Laakasuo, Suvi Parikka, Anna Rotkirch, Hans Hämäläinen","doi":"10.1002/psp.2857","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.2857","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Multiple factors can influence the rates of residential mobility flows between different regions of a country. Studies have often focused on demographic and economic factors, but social conditions may be relevant as well. We examined whether different indicators of social capital (i.e., social support, loneliness, social trust, community participation, cultural activities, and meeting other people) were associated with population migration rates across 299 municipalities of Finland. Data for the social characteristics were derived from the Regional Health and Wellbeing study (<i>n</i> = 100,750 respondents) aggregated to the level of municipalities using multilevel regression with post-stratification (median number of participants was 115 individuals per municipality, range from 5 to 10,616). Residential mobility rates were derived from census data. Municipalities with higher levels of social support, higher social trust, more cultural activities, and more frequent social contacts had higher net migration rates, that is, more people moving in than out of the municipality. Social support, cultural activities, and community participation were associated with higher in-migration. Social trust and frequency of meeting people were associated with lower out-migration. The findings provide empirical support for the hypothesis that regions with stronger social capital are more attractive destinations for within-country residential mobility.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.2857","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142519308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobility against all odds: the experiences of Chinese international students in Portugal amid the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Thais França, Cosmin Nada, Christof Van Mol","doi":"10.1002/psp.2831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2831","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected international student mobility. Chinese international students had to deal not only with challenges such as border closures and lockdowns but also with discrimination and stigmatisation. In this paper, we examine the decisions of Chinese students to engage in international mobility and their experiences in Portugal during the pandemic, relying on 23 in-depth interviews with Chinese international students living in Portugal during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2021). Our findings indicate that, although these students were concerned about the COVID-19 pandemic and its risks, they tended to prioritise their academic endeavours, while their mobility plans did not appear to have been significantly affected by the pandemic. These findings provide new insights into how international students structure their mobility plans and make sense of their experiences of studying abroad during “unsettling events”.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.2831","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142764378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The wellbeing turn: A necessary consideration in international student mobility","authors":"Catherine Gomes","doi":"10.1002/psp.2834","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.2834","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic directly impacted current and aspiring international students who were confronted not only with a global health crisis but one which put a stop to any kind of international and local mobilities. While the pandemic in Australia exposed the vulnerabilities of international students–the likes of which have never been seen before–these experiences which directly impact student wellbeing essentially also have consequences on international student mobility (ISM) scholarship. This is because ISM scholarship has traditionally been driven by migration and mobility studies frameworks of economic and social mobility and security through international Global South-to-Global South migrations. This paper argues that the pandemic has impacted on individual ISM decision-making where international student wellbeing should be recognised as a driver in ISM scholarship. To find out how the COVID-19 global health crisis is bringing about a new paradigm in which to conceptualise and theorise ISM, this paper relies on data gathered before and during the pandemic. These include research reports, Australia's international education national strategies, Australian international student recruitment marketing material, mainstream media articles and a range of research projects I have conducted on international students in Australia. This paper thus suggests that the COVID-19 global health crisis and its impact on not only the international student lived experience but on student expectations and aspirations, have fundamentally changed. Here this paper observes that a ‘wellbeing turn’ has existed in Australia in the international education space and proposes that ISM scholarship needs to consider the ‘wellbeing turn’ as a necessary consideration in ISM research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.2834","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142397780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disenchanted comradery: The social process of persistent mistrust among North Korean refugees in the United Kingdom","authors":"Hwajin Shin, Inseo Son","doi":"10.1002/psp.2856","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.2856","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Previous research on refugees demonstrates that low interpersonal trust impedes their social adaptation in host countries. However, a pervasive sense of low trust among refugees, particularly within their own communities, remains less understood. Using survey and interview data from North Korean refugees in London, United Kingdom, this study probes the social processes that foster mistrust towards their in-group peers. The quantitative findings show that refugees have created a close-knit, in-group community bounded by strong emotional bonds that, counterintuitively, do not necessarily develop into mutual trust. The interviews show that the asylum-seeking experiences and the cultural norms they bring from North Korea continue to shape how they perceive in-group contacts as potential threats. Additionally, interactions with locals, especially South Korean immigrants, amplify perceptions of inferiority and mistrust towards in-group members. These findings illuminate the complex social process through which mutual mistrust continues to persist among refugees, offering insights into the multifaceted challenges refugees face in resettlement.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142384377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coping with temporariness: Space appropriation of South Asian migrants in Muscat, Oman","authors":"Aysha Farooq, Carmella Pfaffenbach","doi":"10.1002/psp.2852","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.2852","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article deals with the practices of South Asian migrant workers appropriating space in Muscat, Oman. Due to temporary employment contracts, low income, and long working hours, in addition to living in a fragmented car-dependent city, their access to the city is spatially and temporally limited. This raises the question of their opportunities and limitations for space appropriation in Muscat. In this paper, we first describe the urban and political context that leads to their limitations and temporalities. We then establish a theoretical framework to define the roles of space, migration, and time. Adopting a qualitative approach combining interviews and observation, we then focus on one location as a case study and analyse how its visitors, low-income and middle-income migrant workers, appropriate space according to their daily needs. Highlighting the tension between rigid constraints and constant change, we conclude by presenting the social and spatial products of the process of space appropriation and respond to the discourse on the production of space through the lens of temporary migration.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.2852","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142384033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobility patterns in Austrian and Italian municipalities in the decade before and during the COVID-19 era","authors":"Daniela Ghio, Anne Goujon, Claudio Bosco","doi":"10.1002/psp.2848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2848","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In European countries, where the demographic transition has reached advanced stages and the natural increase has fallen below zero, migration constitutes a significant component of local population change. We investigate to what extent the dynamics of international migration and internal mobility changed during the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to the previous decade. We focus on Austrian and Italian municipalities to assess the contribution of migration components to local population growth, using official data provided by National Statistical Institutes on inflows and outflows of migrant and native populations, from 2010 to 2020. The adoption of harmonized degrees of urbanization allows us to profile spatial and demographic patterns of mobility, in the Austrian and Italian territories. We apply Bayesian-Geostatistical models, and Artificial Neural-Networks to investigate the potential determinants of mobility variability. The results reveal Austrian and Italian population-specific migration trends. Overall, the trends observed in the decade before the pandemic were either confirmed or further accentuated during the COVID-19 era. Although rural-urban mobility generally persisted in both countries, counter-urbanization trends were detected among Austrian populations during the initial period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conversely, urban and intermediate municipalities in Italy maintained their attractiveness and capacity to retain Italian populations. These findings offer new empirical insights into urbanization dynamics in a comparative perspective, which are particularly relevant for the definition of European regional policy aimed at matching local needs with national social cohesion goals.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.2848","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142764105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}