{"title":"Dynamics in Patterns of Internal Migration in Poland Between 2017 and 2023 – What Are the Impacts of COVID-19?","authors":"Karol Korczyński, Katarzyna Kajdanek","doi":"10.1002/psp.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound spatial impact on economic, cultural and social life, notably altering mobility, including internal migration. Many studies to date looked into various aspects of internal migration patterns after the pandemic outbreak. However, little research has been focused on the area of Central and Eastern Europe. The aim of the paper is to empirically examine the quantitative perspective of registered inter-municipal migrations in Poland between 2017 and 2023. Specifically, the study sought to determine how the scale and directions of internal migrations in Poland changed across three distinct periods: (1) pre-pandemic (2017–2019); (2) during the initial COVID-19 response (2020); (3) post-restrictions period (2021–2023). We ask to what extent the dominant internal migration trends (depopulation of rural areas and growth in metropolitan areas fuelled by strong suburbanisation trends) were affected during COVID-19 compared to preceding years. We examine this through analysis of migration intensity, net-migration rates and the predominance of urban and rural origins and destinations, using population register data on annual flows between municipalities. We discover that the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a decrease of migration intensity in 2020 as well as in the following years compared to 2017–2019, with lower net-migration rates in suburban areas and greater in non-metropolitan peripheries.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143404613","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}
Marta Jaroszewicz, Tetiana Shkoda, Olena Ovchynnikova
{"title":"Migration Trajectories of Ukrainian Scholars Abroad: Forced Academic Mobility","authors":"Marta Jaroszewicz, Tetiana Shkoda, Olena Ovchynnikova","doi":"10.1002/psp.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70011","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article deals with the topic of the forced migration of Ukrainian academics who left their homeland after the onset of Russia's full-scale aggression on 24th February 2022. It is based on the results of a qualitative study of scholars who settled in different foreign destinations and examines their migration trajectories from both a spatial and temporal perspective as well as from the point of view of individual decision making. Combining forced migration research with existing scholarship on academic mobility, it tracks scholars’ long journeys to their places of asylum, distinguishing two principal academic trajectories undertaken by Ukrainian academics: continuing to work remotely for Ukrainian institutions and seeking academic positions abroad. The article demonstrates that the most common life strategy of displaced Ukrainian researchers involves the maintenance of dense transnational networks—principally professional links with Ukrainian universities—while simultaneously looking for opportunities abroad. This dual strategy has led to distinct outcomes compared to previously studied cases of forced migration of academics.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143404612","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":"Does Migration Widen Mortality Inequalities Between Rural and Urban Areas? Long-Term Mortality Risk Among Rural Stayers, Rural Migrants, Urban Migrants, and Returners in Norway","authors":"Monika Dybdahl Jakobsen, Knut Fylkesnes, Tonje Braaten","doi":"10.1002/psp.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In many countries, the main internal migration trend has been from rural to urban areas. However, there is little knowledge of whether internal migration from rural to urban areas contributes to widening geographical inequalities in health and survival. In the present study, we investigated differences in long-term mortality risk among stayers (individuals who did not move from their rural municipality), rural migrants (individuals who moved to other rural municipalities), urban migrants (individuals who moved to urban municipalities), and returners (individuals who first moved to urban municipalities and then returned to rural municipalities). Data from a population-based survey carried out among adults in Finnmark aged 30–62 years in 1987/88 was linked to the National Population Register and the Norwegian Cause of Death Registry to identify migration and deaths from recruitment to the health survey up to December 2017. Flexible parametric survival models were used to examine the age-varying associations between different migration careers and mortality. For both men and women, the estimated mortality risk was lower for all internal migrant groups when compared to stayers. However, for men, the findings only applied to ages under 85 years for rural migrants, 81 years for urban migrants, and 71 years for returners, while for women, the findings applied to ages under 75 years for rural migrants, 78 years for urban migrants, and the age range 46–86 years for returners. The lower mortality risk observed among migrants contributes to widening health inequalities between rural depopulation areas and areas with increasing populations. Migrants to rural areas may limit this effect.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143380601","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":"Migration's Role in Shaping Socio-Demographic Structure in the Peripheral Rural Regions: A Case Study of Lithuania","authors":"Rūta Ubarevičienė, Tautvydas Žinys, Edis Kriaučiūnas","doi":"10.1002/psp.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper aims to deepen our understanding of how migration shapes the socio-demographic structure of the peripheral rural regions. We bridge the fields of peripherality and migration research to address the gap in understanding their interplay. We use Lithuania as a case study, exemplifying the metropolization-peripheralization trend and selective migration patterns. Our analysis uses a unique longitudinal, geocoded data set covering the entire population, including inner and international migrants, allowing for a detailed examination of migration patterns across spatial and temporal dimensions from 2001 to 2021. The results show significant variations in the characteristics of individuals migrating to and from peripheral rural regions across different directions, with two-way migration flows playing an important role in shaping the socio-demographic structure of these regions. Furthermore, migration—particularly inner migration—has become an increasingly important factor influencing population dynamics and contributing to further peripheralization.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143380412","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":"Population Growth and Decline in China: A Geographical Analysis, 1982–2020","authors":"Yingzhi Qiu, Guangzhong Cao, Tao Liu","doi":"10.1002/psp.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Understanding historical population processes is crucial for interpreting current trends, forecasting future dynamics, and shaping regional and national development strategies. However, the historical trajectories and heterogeneous determinants of regional population growth and decline remain understudied. This study employs data from long-term national population censuses, diverse supplementary datasets, and regression models to reveal the historical dynamics and drivers of prefecture-level population growth and decline in China from 1982 to 2020. Our results disclosed the spread process of regional population decline in quantity and space, identified four major types and eight subtypes of population growth and decline trajectories by combining the regional population growth and decline status across every decade, delineated the distinct spatial patterns of these trajectories, and revealed the differentiated and evolving determinants of regions with population growth in the previous decade and those with population decline. Future trends of regional population growth and decline were predicted based on these analyses. These findings offer the following policy implications for addressing the challenges posed by widespread yet uneven regional population decline: adopting smart shrinkage strategies, enhancing economic and social resilience, and fostering higher-scale regional cooperation.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143380413","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}
Brigitte Suter, Ruth Evans, Rosa Mas Giralt, Katarina Mozetič
{"title":"Special Issue Young People's Caring Practices in Transnational Families in Sweden and the UK: Care Ethics and Wellbeing","authors":"Brigitte Suter, Ruth Evans, Rosa Mas Giralt, Katarina Mozetič","doi":"10.1002/psp.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Children are often regarded as ‘dependents’ within migration studies, rendering their care work invisible. Drawing on the ethics of care, this paper analyses young people's active roles in caring for family members in Sweden and the UK and for transnational kin, based on qualitative and participatory research with young people (aged 6–25). Many young people provided emotional support, language brokering and practical assistance to navigate care, welfare and immigration systems. Some young people engaged in higher levels of caregiving, often linked to inadequate formal care resources and the absence of a parent or extended kin who would usually be expected to provide care. Caregiving was often accompanied by gendered and inter- and intra-generational conflicts, which could impact on young people's wellbeing and competence to provide ‘good care’. More awareness is needed of young people's crucial roles in filling the gaps in care, welfare and migration regimes in transnational spaces.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143380414","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}
Rachel Ong ViforJ, Jack Hewton, Christopher Phelps
{"title":"Barriers to Homeownership Among Young People in Australia: Unpacking Competing Hypotheses","authors":"Rachel Ong ViforJ, Jack Hewton, Christopher Phelps","doi":"10.1002/psp.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The homeownership prospects of young people are declining globally. There have been widespread public concerns regarding barriers posed by unaffordable housing markets and tighter borrowing constraints, but equally a recognition that parental assistance can overcome these constraints. At the same time, public commentary often suggests that young people exhibit behaviours that are not conducive to saving for home purchase. This paper tests the relative importance of competing hypotheses regarding the barriers to homeownership among young people using the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. We find strong evidence that affordability constraints in the form of unaffordable housing markets and binding borrowing constraints are key barriers to homeownership. These constraints can be mitigated in the presence of intergenerational support as receipt of parental transfers in excess of AU$5000 quadruples the odds of achieving ownership. Poor saving habits, short-term financial planning and labour market precarities have negative impacts on homeownership prospects, but they are relatively less important drivers of homeownership attainment than affordability constraints and parental transfers.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143111729","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":"Temporariness in the Life Course of Multi-local Residents: Processuality of Home","authors":"Maya Willecke","doi":"10.1002/psp.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In late modern societies characterized by increasing mobility and individualization, temporary living and working arrangements are no longer a rare phenomenon. In many life biographies, temporary and multi-local periods, with more than one place of residence, have become common. This paper adopts a life course perspective to explore how temporary experiences influence individuals’ perceptions of their current multi-local arrangements and future aspirations. Moreover it investigates how multi-local residents perceive and realize <i>home</i> in their life course. Based on biographical interviews with multi-local residents in two German cities, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, this study aims to deepen our understanding of multi-local living arrangement from a life course perspective and to examine its implications on the processuality of <i>home</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143111241","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":"Beyond the Country of Origin and the Receiving Society: Differentiated Place Attachments and Homes Among Dominican Immigrants in the Netherlands","authors":"Sabrina Dinmohamed","doi":"10.1002/psp.70008","DOIUrl":"10.1002/psp.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study moves beyond traditional questions regarding immigrants' integration into various domains of their receiving societies to explore the meanings of places and the associated feelings of home. By examining how specific geographical locations relate to these feelings, the study illuminates post-migration experiences and realities that are often overlooked in studies of immigrants. Specifically, it explores the significance of both the country of origin and the receiving society in shaping immigrants' feeling of home. Two key findings emerge from this ethnographic research. First, the study underscores the diversity within immigrant communities regarding the perceived location of home, with a particular emphasis on the influence of stepwise migration trajectories on these perceptions. Second, the findings demonstrate that the feeling of home is rooted in a variety of factors. By examining this feeling, this study offers a valuable lens via which to understand immigrants' attachments to both their countries of origin and receiving societies, enriching our understanding of their settlement experiences.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143083691","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":"Farming Technologies, Migration and Left-Behind Women in China: A Socio-Technical Perspective","authors":"Lena Kaufmann, Han Tao","doi":"10.1002/psp.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article sheds new light on the connection between agriculture and rural-urban migration in contemporary China. Focusing on migrants' places of origin and the case of paddy rice fields, it investigates how rural families cope with the dual challenges of migrating to cities for employment and preserving their fields as safety net resources. In the absence of the middle generation, and especially men, due to migration, it is especially older women who face a double burden of caring not only for the fields but also for their grandchildren. This article is based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in rural and urban China, including participant observation and interviews with migrating and left-behind farmers, as well as the analysis of local gazetteers, media reports, agricultural reports and statistics. Taking a socio-technical perspective on migration, which is also relevant beyond China, the article discusses three exemplary land-use strategies with a focus on the gendered implications of these strategies. It demonstrates how women who stay draw strategically on available manual and industrial farming technologies and knowledge to actively deal with their households' predicament. It argues that paying more attention to those who stay and their material world enables a better understanding of migration processes and the specific agency of left-behind women. Moreover, this provides insights into subtly changing family and gender dynamics, including challenging the binary division of technologies used for productive or reproductive labour. In so doing, this article contributes an original, qualitative exploration of the understudied rural side of migration.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143118876","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}