International Migration and Rural Areas (Studies in Migration and Diaspora)

218 Pages·2009·2.42 MB·English

by  Birgit Jentsch

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND RURAL AREAS
Studies in Migration and Diaspora
Series Editor:
Anne J. Kershen, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK
Studies in Migration and Diaspora is a series designed to showcase the
interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature of research in this important .eld.
Volumes in the series cover local, national and global issues and engage with both
historical and contemporary events. The books will appeal to scholars, students
and all those engaged in the study of migration and diaspora. Amongst the topics
covered are minority ethnic relations, transnational movements and the cultural,
social and political implications of moving from ‘over there’, to ‘over here’.
Also in the series:
Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship
Life-stories From Britain and Germany
Umut Erel
ISBN 978-0-7546-7494-8
Polish Migration to the UK in the ‘New’ European Union
After 2004
Kathy Burrell
ISBN 978-0-7546 7387-3
Gendering Migration
Masculinity, Femininity and Ethnicity in Post-War Britain
Edited by Louise Ryan and Wendy Webster
ISBN 978-0-7546-7178-7
Contemporary British Identity
English Language, Migrants and Public Discourse
Christina Julios
ISBN 978-0-7546-7158-9
Migration and Domestic Work
A European Perspective on a Global Theme
Edited by Helma Lutz
ISBN 978-0-7546-4790-4
International Migration
and Rural Areas
Cross-National Comparative Perspectives
Edited by
BIRGIT JENTSCH
Ionad Nàiseanta na h-Imrich
(National Centre for Migration Studies), Scotland
MYRIAM SIMARD
Institut National de la Recherche Scienti.que, Canada
© Birgit Jentsch and Myriam Simard 2009
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and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work.
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
International migration and rural areas : cross-national
comparative perspectives. -- (Studies in migration and
diaspora)
1. Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
2. Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.
3. Sociology, Rural. 4. Rural conditions--Case studies.
5. Manpower policy, Rural--Case studies.
I. Series II. Jentsch, Birgit. III. Simard, Myriam
305.9'06912'091734-dc22

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jentsch, Birgit.
International migration and rural areas : cross-national comparative perspectives / by
Birgit Jentsch and Myriam Simard.
p. cm. -- (Studies in migration and diaspora)
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7484-9
1. Urban-rural migration--Case studies. 2. Rural development--Case studies. I. Simard,
Myriam - II. Title.
HB1956.J46 2009
307.2'6--dc22
2009016683
ISBN 9780754674849 (hbk)
ISBN 9780754697879 (ebk.V)
Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Series Editor’s Preface xv
1 Introduction: Key Issues in Contemporary Rural Immigration 1
Myriam Simard and Birgit Jentsch
2 Taken by Surprise: New Immigrants in the Rural United States 17
Leif Jensen and Tse-Chuan Yang
3 Retention and Departure Factors Influencing Highly Skilled
Immigrants in Rural Areas: Medical Professionals in
Quebec, Canada 43
Myriam Simard
4 From Enthusiasm to Perplexity and Scepticism: International
Migrants in the Rural Regions of Greece and Southern Europe 75
Charalambos Kasimis
5 Migration to Rural Ireland: A North Cork Case Study 99
Liam Coakley and Piaras Mac Éinrí
6 The New Scottish Rural Labour Market: Processes of Inclusion
and Exclusion 127
Mike Danson and Birgit Jentsch
7 Immigrants and Receiving Communities in Rural Russia:
Experiences from the Central European and the Far East Regions 151
Irina Ivakhnyuk
8 Conclusion: Comparative Perspectives on Rural Immigrants’
Integration 179
Birgit Jentsch and Myriam Simard
Index 197
To Philip – B.J.
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
2.1 Total post-1990 foreign-born population in all USA counties, 2000 23
2.2 New immigrant population change in the USA non-metro counties 24
4.1 The three paradigmatic rural study regions in Greece 83
4.2 Average number of non-family labour days in 2000 and before
the arrival of migrants in 1989 86
4.3 Family and non-family labour per farm 87
4.4 Household members’ perception of the impact of migrant
employment on the local economy 92
4.5 Farm holders’ evaluation of impact of migrant employment
on operation of farm 93
Tables
2.1 Characteristics of non-metropolitan counties by change in recent
immigrant population 36
6.1 Overqualification rates of native and foreign-born population,
2004 (per cent) 133
6.2 Typology of different policy approaches towards migrant workers 142
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Notes on Contributors
Liam Coakley is a social and cultural geographer, with a particular interest in
the geographies of everyday environments. He is currently employed as an
assistant lecturer in the Department of Geography, Mary Immaculate College,
at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Liam has also been employed in the
Department of Geography, University College Cork, Ireland and the Department
of Geography, University of Otago, New Zealand. Over the past number of years,
he has researched issues of identity and difference in Ireland. His special interests
include the experiences of immigrant communities. Liam has authored a number
of papers/reports on the experience of immigration to Ireland and has published/
presented them in a variety of appropriate fora.
Mike Danson is Professor of Scottish and Regional Economics, and Associate
Dean of Research at the University of the West of Scotland, as well as Treasurer
of the British Academy of Social Sciences. He has a strong academic and applied
interest in regional and rural economic development and, in the last 5 years, has
been editor of 5 books, had 20 refereed articles published, contributed 20 chapters
in books and presented nearly 50 conference papers. Mike also has a wide range
of expertise and experience in regeneration analysis and evaluation, including
a secondment to Future Skills Scotland to explore research and policy issues
regarding ‘employability’. He is well known across Europe and has organised over
60 national and international conferences since 1980 across the continent, including
several meetings around employment and demographic change. Mike is a member of
the Economic and Social Cohesion Advisory Group of the West of Scotland European
Partnership and has acted as advisor to the European Commission, UN Economic
Commission for Europe, WHO, various Scottish, UK and local governments and
development agencies on such issues as regional policy, demographic and population
change, the Scotch Whisky industry, land reform, poverty and inclusion, regional
development agencies, the Gaelic economy, employability, ageing and volunteering.
He was commissioned to undertake the first ever research for the Scottish Parliament
and research for the first ever independent debate in the Parliament, he delivered the
first ever paper at a cross-party conference in Holyrood, and has presented research on
Whisky to the House of Commons, and on volunteering to underpin the Volunteering
Strategy for Scotland.
Irina Ivakhnyuk is a Senior Researcher and Deputy-Director of the Population
Department at the Faculty of Economics, Moscow State Lomonosov University.
She is a Demography graduate of Moscow State Lomonosov University and