Emigration and Depopulation: Some Neglected Aspects of Population Geography

Löwenthal, David; Comitas, Lambros

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“…Edwards (1971) in northeast England demonstrated that settlements with more than 450 adult residents exhibited fairly consistent increases in population between 1951 and 1961 while smaller settlements generally experienced decline, with the loss of population and disappearance of social and commercial facilities being most severe in settlements with less than 100 adults. Similar conclusions were reached by Johnston (1967) and numerous other studies of rural population change echo the findings of Lowenthal & Comitas (1962) that the smaller the community the more likely it is to be losing population. Threshold analysis in this simple form clearly ignores many of the social and economic factors in community life.…”

Section: Defining Settlement Viabilitysupporting

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The Viability of Smaller Rural Settlements

Pacione

1982

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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The Viability of Smaller Rural Settlements

Pacione

1982

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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“…Anyhow, emigration as the ‘prime factor’ and ‘inseparable feature’ of population decline (Lowenthal & Comitas, , 197) is a dated notion. Today, in Eastern Germany and other declining areas in Europe, without sufficient in‐migration, low fertility and an unfavourable age structure spell population decline even without mass emigration.…”

Section: Schools and Population Decline: A Review Of Existing Researchmentioning

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A ‘Recipe for Depopulation’? School Closures and Local Population Decline in Saxony

Barakat

2014

Population Space and Place

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A popular notion asserts that closing the last primary school marks a community's demographic death. No young parents will remain, much less new ones move in. This notion is frequently voiced but rarely verified. Are school closures a cause or consequence of local decline? This study reviews existing research on school locations and peripheral population decline to show that expectations of a dramatic impact of school closures on out-migration are theoretically ill-founded. I proceed to discuss specific methodological challenges in the empirical analysis of this relationship, and conduct a statistical analysis for the province of Saxony in East Germany for the period 1994-2007. In contrast to the prevailing discourse, there is little evidence of an appreciable effect of primary school closures on local population decline. This negative finding is discussed in light of local contextual factors and general insights from population geography.

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“…These figures represent a picture of quite dramatic depopulation in these Hebridean islands. However, this is by no means a local or national phenomenon but can be seen replicated across the globe in rural, maritime, and insular contexts (Corbett, 2005;Hannan, 1969;Lowenthal & Comitas, 1962).…”

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Learning and leaving: education and depopulation in an island community

Gillies

2013

Cambridge Journal of Education

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This paper probes the extent to which education can be identified as a factor in rural depopulation. The study focuses on the Scottish Hebridean island of Raasay which has seen significant population loss since census records began in 1841. In this study the post-school destinations of all pupils enrolled at Raasay School 1901-2000 have been plotted. In addition, a sample of school pupils from 1941-2000 have been questioned about their decision-making in relation to post-school destinations. The study shows that a remarkable 86% of school pupils left the island during that century. Further education was the main reason respondents gave for migrating after leaving school but the data also suggest that it is lack of suitable employment that keeps them away. The study concludes that while education is implicated in island depopulation, of more significance is suitable employment, much more so than aspects of infrastructure such as transport and housing.

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Emigration and Depopulation: Some Neglected Aspects of Population Geography

Cited by 31 publications

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The Viability of Smaller Rural Settlements

The Viability of Smaller Rural Settlements

A ‘Recipe for Depopulation’? School Closures and Local Population Decline in Saxony

Learning and leaving: education and depopulation in an island community

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