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Immigrants, Social Integration and Sustainable Rural Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 November 2024 | Viewed by 3031

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Apostolos G. Papadopoulos

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Department of Geography, Harokopio University, 70 Eleftheriou Venizelou Street, 17676 Athens, Greece
Interests: rural development; migration; rural transformation; family farming; rural resilience; return to the countryside; transformative mobilities; rural commons; sustainable development
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Dr. Loukia-Maria Fratsea

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Department of Geography, Harokopio University, 70 Eleftheriou Venizelou Street, 17676 Athens, Greece
Interests: rural development; rural transformation; migration; mobilities; social and spatial mobility; sustainable development; qualitative analysis
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Over the years, migration research has primarily focused on immigrants’ movement to and settlement processes in urban areas. More recently, attention has also turned to investigate the ways immigrants are emplaced and integrated in rural localities and small towns and to study social change and rural restructuring. In this context, it is important to place more emphasis on the processes, the socioeconomic preconditions, the challenges of immigrants’ settlement, and the complex ways in which immigrants’ movements across rural, regional, and peripheral areas are evolving. Numerous factors are considered critical when discussing the size, intensity, and duration of migration flows towards non-metropolitan areas, such as globalization, counter-urbanization, agricultural intensification/restructuring, climate change, changes in the political and/or economic conjuncture, etc.

The placement and social integration of incoming populations raise both opportunities and challenges, and therefore, various aspects and conditions need to be discussed in regard to the attractiveness and/or the resilience of non-metropolitan areas.

Some relevant pressing questions and debates include the following: Which are the major factors affecting the connections between urban and non-urban localities and places in relation to population flows? In which ways do inequalities influence immigration and mobility processes? What is the impact of immigration on the receiving non-metropolitan/rural areas? How does immigration interact with other processes in the receiving areas? What factors enable or hinder immigrants’ social integration into rural areas? Which are the basic roles of internal/international migrants and the new stakeholders in addressing the sustainability goals in rural areas?

This Special Issue seeks to put together a collection of papers presenting original and innovative contributions based on quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods, discussing specific case studies drawn from socioeconomic and/or geographical data, seeking to advance sustainability research in non-metropolitan/rural/peripheral areas by examining the role of immigration (international and/or internal) analysed from different perspectives and angles, and aiming to strengthen social resilience in rural areas and sustainable rural development.

Prof. Dr. Apostolos G. Papadopoulos
Dr. Loukia-Maria Fratsea
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • immigration
  • international migrants
  • internal migrants
  • refugees
  • lifestyle migration
  • social integration
  • precarity
  • rural development
  • rural transformation
  • sustainable development
  • well-being
  • social conditionality
  • farming
  • intensive agriculture
  • transnationalism

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The Mediation Effect of Media: Artvin, Reverse Migration, and Social Municipalism
by Mehmet Kocatepe, Cemal Yorgancıoğlu, Mustafa Sağsan and Harun Şeşen
Sustainability 2023, 15(19), 14304; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151914304 - 27 Sep 2023
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Throughout history, migration has had a significant impact on communities, affecting populations, countries, and abandoned or immigrated places in both positive and negative ways. In today’s world, it has become a social element with undeniably profound effects on society and individuals. This study [...] Read more.
Throughout history, migration has had a significant impact on communities, affecting populations, countries, and abandoned or immigrated places in both positive and negative ways. In today’s world, it has become a social element with undeniably profound effects on society and individuals. This study aims to explore the impact of municipal services on migration and reverse migration in Artvin Province. Furthermore, this article aims to fill this gap by analysing the mediating role of the media and examining the relationship between social municipalism and reverse migration in Artvin. This article uses the model of deviant case analysis to explain the phenomenon of migration in the case of Artvin. A quantitative approach was adopted and conducted in the provinces (Ankara, Istanbul, Bursa, and Kocaeli) to which people from Artvin have migrated the most. A total of 700 responses were obtained. The results show that there is a positive relationship between social municipalism and migration and that the media has a mediating effect between social municipalism and migration. While traditional media influence people’s decision to migrate, social media play an important role in the reverse migration decision. Full article
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Migration and Rural Sustainability: Relative Poverty Alleviation by Geographical Mobility in China
by Ning Xu and Chang’an Li
Sustainability 2023, 15(7), 6248; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15076248 - 05 Apr 2023
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Migration is an important way for rural labourers to break the uneven distribution of resources, earn more income and seek their own sustainable development. However, existing studies have focused more on rural–urban migration and less on geographical migration. Our study further enriches the [...] Read more.
Migration is an important way for rural labourers to break the uneven distribution of resources, earn more income and seek their own sustainable development. However, existing studies have focused more on rural–urban migration and less on geographical migration. Our study further enriches the existing research on poverty reduction and provides a theoretical reference for policy decisions to promote a balanced regional development. Using data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) 2012–2020, we conduct benchmark estimates through linear probability models and estimate the impact of migration on the relative poverty of the rural labourer through binary probit models. The results show that migration could significantly reduce the likelihood of a relatively poor state of rural labourers by around 4%; the greater the distance of migration, the greater the effects; and migration of rural labourers in the central region has the largest and most significant relative poverty reduction effect. Furthermore, migration could also compensate for the disadvantages of rural labourers who are unemployed, less educated and in poor health, making them less likely to be relatively poor. We also use multiple linear models to examine whether migration has a significant income-boosting effect on the rural people and found a positive result in which the effect reaches its highest in the central region at 22.95%. Therefore, it is necessary to further break down the barriers to geographical migration of rural labourers, strengthen the public transportation system and pay greater attention to Central China in order to better promote balanced development among regions. Full article
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