Re-populating rural studies: Migrations, movements and mobilities

Copreneurship in rural tourism: exploring women's experiences

“…see Milbourne, 2007;Vince, 1952) and detailed statistical information from national populations censuses has allowed rural researchers to enumerate and map the flows of people into and out of rural places, as well as the shifting demographic and socio-economic profiles of rural populations. This has shaped the dominant research agendas of rural population change in developed countries and for most of the 20 th century, the focus stayed on the causes, characteristics and consequences of net movements of people out of rural places as revealed by the population censuses.…”

“…This has shaped the dominant research agendas of rural population change in developed countries and for most of the 20 th century, the focus stayed on the causes, characteristics and consequences of net movements of people out of rural places as revealed by the population censuses. For the latter part of the 20 th century, the same sources of information began to show new aggregate movements of people into rural areas and research agendas shifted towards making sense of the processes of rural in-migration, rural re-population and counter-urbanisation (Milbourne, 2007). What has happened more recently however, is that despite the range of publications on rural population change in different countries, based on statistical investigations of the shifts in populations, socio-economic characteristics and spatial and demographic shifts, along with place-based in depth studies of impacts of population change, rural researchers have largely abandoned quantitative approaches to population change, replacing these with place-based qualitative accounts of the socio-cultural consequences of rural population change (Lee and McDermott, 1998;Milbourne, 2007;Murphy, 2002).…”

“…In New Zealand, the performance of rural districts and provincial cities has consistently been well below the national rates of growth since 1986 (Lee and McDermott, 1998 Milbourne, 2007). However, in New Zealand (as overseas) there are shifts which have been conducive to driving the development of rural tourism businesses.…”

Globalising Swedish countrysides? A relational approach to rural immigrant restaurateurs with refugee backgrounds

“…Migrants' motives for migration related to necessity and choice are relevant themes in further studies of rural mobilities and population change (Milbourne 2007;Stockdale & Catney 2014;Findlay et al 2015). This relates to the fixity and fluidity of globalising rural places (Milbourne & Kitchen 2014), meaning that places of origin and destination are socially constructed and 'never completed' (Thrift 1999), as they consist of intersecting power relations (Massey 1994;Hudson 2004).…”

Migration, environment and rural gentrification in the Limousin mountains

“…) raised by the authors. For example, the migratory movements that fuel the larger part of the demographic recovery have prompted diverse studies which, depending on the conceptual apparatus used, fall into in scientific (sub)fields, or even paradigms, such as population geography (Smith, 2002;Milbourne, 2007;Pistre, 2012) , amenity migration (Moss, 2006;Cognard, 2010;Marcouiller et al, 2011;Martin et al, 2012) or rural gentrification (Smith, 1998;M. Phillips, 1993;Bryson et Wyckoff, 2010).…”