Intergenerational Relationships and Rural Return Migration

Reichert, Christiane von; Cromartie, John; Arthun, Ryan O.

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5567-3_14

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“…The likelihood of returning to the “home region” was found to be much higher for those whose parents still lived in the region than for those whose parents had moved out or were no longer alive. According to Von Reichert et al (2013), family relationships played an important part in their study participants' motivations for return migration. The return migrants first and foremost mentioned their parents as the focal point of the return move.…”

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“…Conversely, the authors concluded from interviews with participants who had not returned that “if the parents had moved away, the incentive and inclination to return was greatly diminished and practically eliminated, as out‐migrants repeatedly stated: There is nothing here. My parents don't live here, and there are no jobs” (Von Reichert et al, 2013, p. 262).…”

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“…In line with other work emphasising the role of family in internal migration (summarised by Mulder, 2018; see also Thomas, Gillespie, & Lomax, 2019 on family motives for migration), several recent studies have looked into the role of family in return migration. These studies have established that family reasons form a substantial share of the motivations of young return migrants (Haartsen & Thissen, 2014) and that the location of parents is crucial in young adults' return migration (Zorlu & Kooiman, 2019; see also qualitative work by Von Reichert, Cromartie, & Arthun, 2013). We contribute to this line of research by investigating the importance of siblings in return and onward migration, while also taking into account the role of parents.…”

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Young adults' return migration from large cities in Sweden: The role of siblings and parents

Mulder

Lundholm

Malmberg

2020

Population Space and Place

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Living in cities affects young adults' access to education and work. With the use of register data for 2000-2013, we examined the role of having siblings and parents living close by and having siblings and parents living in the area of origin, in young adults' return migration from the four largest cities in Sweden. We found that young adults were less likely to return, and also less likely to migrate elsewhere, if they had siblings or parents living in the city of residence than if this was not the case. If the parents no longer lived in the region of origin, the young adults were very unlikely to return. Young adults were more likely to return if they had siblings living in that region than if they had no siblings or the siblings lived elsewhere. Adverse circumstances such as dropping out of tertiary education, low income, and unemployment were associated with a greater likelihood of return migration.

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Young adults' return migration from large cities in Sweden: The role of siblings and parents

Mulder

Lundholm

Malmberg

2020

Population Space and Place

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“…It is likely that a nontrivial share of the oldest migrants are moving near family members to receive informal care, which our model cannot account for, resulting in a decrease in fit as age increases (von Reichert et al, 2013). Also, a possibility for future research would be similar models estimated with geographically weighted regressions to allow for regionally specific effects of different migration drivers.…”

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Senior Migration: Spatial Considerations of Amenity and Health Access Drivers*

Dorfman

Mandich

2015

Journal of Regional Science

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ABSTRACT. This paper extends the literature on amenity migration by focusing on healthcare access for later-life migrants. Previous studies have strongly suggested that natural amenities are strong pull factors for later-life migrants, but high natural amenity counties rarely possess the quality healthcare access optimal for elderly migrants. Utilizing a spatial Bayesian estimation strategy, we explicitly consider numerous drivers of later-life migration to examine the extent to which health access is a driver in location decisions. We find healthcare access measures, including hospital expenditures, hospital beds, and number of doctors, are positively associated with later-life migration decisions.

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“…Conversations with return migrants having three or more children were quite common. They mentioned the greater ease of raising children in a smaller town: “We have five children and I thought it would be a good place to raise a family.” A separate analysis of these same interviews showed that enabling children to grow up near grandparents was a common reason cited for returning (von Reichert, Cromartie, and Arthun , forthcoming). Advantages of raising children in smaller communities and opportunities for children to attend smaller schools were also frequently mentioned: “So we have three boys.…”

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Impacts of Return Migration on Rural U.S. Communities

2013

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Rural population loss is caused as much by low in‐migration as by high out‐migration, and for geographically disadvantaged nonmetropolitan counties in the United States, return migration plays a crucial role. This research captures impacts of return migrants on population, economy, and society in declining rural U.S. communities using a qualitative, multisited approach. Interviews conducted at high school reunions with rural returnees in their late 20s to late 40s show that the vast majority of returnees brought spouses and children back with them, increasing the short‐term and long‐term population. They also brought back much needed human capital, including education, job skills, and life experiences, and filled professional positions that are often hard to fill in rural communities. Entrepreneurial activities and self‐employment of many return migrants favorably affected rural economies by improving the employment base and expanding available services. Interviews show how decisions to move back were grounded in social relations that promoted civic engagement. While they mainly moved back for their children and their families, return migrants valued involvement in familiar social networks and the opportunities to make a difference in their rural hometowns.

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Intergenerational Relationships and Rural Return Migration

Cited by 7 publications

References 22 publications

Young adults' return migration from large cities in Sweden: The role of siblings and parents

Young adults' return migration from large cities in Sweden: The role of siblings and parents

Senior Migration: Spatial Considerations of Amenity and Health Access Drivers*

Impacts of Return Migration on Rural U.S. Communities

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