All kinds of potential: Women and out-migration in an Atlantic Canadian coastal community

Corbett, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2006.12.001

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“…After compulsory education is completed at age 16, youth in rural communities have to leave to attend vocational or high schools located in larger communities. This is similar to trends observed elsewhere in rural fishing communities (Corbett 2007;Karlsdóttir and Jungsberg 2015).…”

Section: Drangsnes and Skagaströndsupporting

confidence: 91%

“Little kings”: community, change and conflict in Icelandic fisheries

2017

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Scholars of political ecology have long been interested in questions of access, equity, and power in environmental management. This paper explores these domains by examining lived experiences and daily realities in Iceland's fishing communities, 30 years after the implementation of a national privatized Individual Transferrable Quota (ITQ) fisheries management system. Drawing upon ethnographic data collected over 2 years in the rural coastal communities of Northwest Iceland, we address three questions; 1) How the ITQ system relates to other complex social and environmental factors facing coastal communities today. 2) How attempts to alleviate negative impacts of the ITQ system have led to new rifts in communities and 3) how the decision-making power of a few dominant interest groups in national politics leaves small-boat fishermen and rural communities at a disadvantage. In the words of our study participants, the Icelandic fisheries management scheme has created "little kings" in rural communities, where each little king acts in his own best interest, yet has no recourse to collective power and no platform to influence national politics. In this volatile political situation with cross-scale implications, it is difficult for fishermen, their families, and community members to imagine ways in which power over and access to the fisheries resource can be redistributed.

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Section: Drangsnes and Skagaströndsupporting

confidence: 91%

“Little kings”: community, change and conflict in Icelandic fisheries

2017

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“…Similar to the findings of others (Corbett 2007a(Corbett , 2007bDavis 2003;Jackson et al 2006), we found that investing in the 'knowledge economy' (Narin and Higgins, 2007) or formal education, and the quality of work and lifestyle that it promised, operated as a primary (albeit, gendered) route for 'getting out'. Although the participants talked about there being 'no jobs' in their rural communities, for many youth-especially older youth located in service-oriented communities-this meant that there were no 'good' jobs, with most of the available work concentrated in the service industries.…”

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confidence: 89%

Stuck between ‘the rock’ and a hard place: rural crisis and re-imagining rural Newfoundland feminine subjectivities

Norman

Power

2014

Gender, Place & Culture

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“…These findings indicative of the current realities for youth in northern, fisheries dependent communities are exemplified in those studies conducted in Newfoundland (Hamilton and Seyfrit 1994) and Corbett's rich ethnographic studies of Digby Neck, Nova Scotia (Corbett 2004(Corbett , 2005(Corbett , 2006(Corbett , 2007a(Corbett , 2007b. These works show how cultural capital, defined as the honors, educational qualifications, and other forms of knowledge and behavior that bestow social distinction (Froerer 2012) is, in northern coastal communities, locally acquired through place based practices; centered on practical knowledge and multiple skills valuable for a coastal livelihood and expressed through ties of kinship and other forms of social capital.…”

Section: Cultural Responses To Socioeconomic Change In Fishing Communmentioning

confidence: 86%

“…The phenomenon of higher levels of young, coastal women attending higher education institutions positions them well for increasing public sector and administrative work in the north (Corbett 2007a;Rasmussen 2011). Considering attrition rates for college attendance, however, the decision to go to college should be carefully considered and planned at a time of rising student loan debt and a global youth unemployment crisis.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The Alaska focus group discussions also reinforced possible reasons for increased female flight from Alaska's rural communities, i.e. strong gender stratification and traditionally defined gender roles limiting employment opportunities for women at home (Corbett 2007a); constraints perhaps unacceptable to some of today's young women who understand there are other options for them outside of their rural communities.…”

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confidence: 97%

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Localized practices and globalized futures: challenges for Alaska coastal community youth

Lowe

2015

Maritime Studies

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Increasing enclosure in fisheries, the rising cost of living in northern rural areas, and the single sector economies of many coastal communities have increased community vulnerability to short and long-term resource and market instabilities. This article situates Alaska coastal youth within the current economic uncertainty experienced by communities traditionally reliant upon commercial fishing. Focus group interviews conducted with youth aged 16-24 in Gulf of Alaska coastal communities demonstrate youth in this region possess strong, place-based social capital shaped by the small size and geographic remoteness of their communities as well as a connectedness to each other and to the physical environment of those communities. Key discourses emerged in the interviews concerning this "close-knit" nature of Alaska coastal communities, how their residents are "hands-on" people in the context of employment preferences and affinities, and that Alaska coastal youth perceive a "real world" beyond the borders of their communities offering them attractive amenities of modern, urban lifestyles. As opportunities in traditional occupations such as fishing diminish, coastal youth are encouraged to pursue higher education and in this context, young women are leaving more frequently than young men as gender roles change.

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All kinds of potential: Women and out-migration in an Atlantic Canadian coastal community

Cited by 54 publications

References 17 publications

“Little kings”: community, change and conflict in Icelandic fisheries

“Little kings”: community, change and conflict in Icelandic fisheries

Stuck between ‘the rock’ and a hard place: rural crisis and re-imagining rural Newfoundland feminine subjectivities

Localized practices and globalized futures: challenges for Alaska coastal community youth

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