International Immigration, Integration and Sustainability in Small Towns and Villages: Socio-Territorial Challenges in Rural and Semi-Rural Europe

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This book brings small places to the main stage in an exploration of the nature of immigration in rural areas and small towns in Europe. Extending recent efforts to study migration at a sub-national scale, the authors focus their analysis on non-metropolitan areas to consider how globalisation and modernisation processes are experienced at a local level. Morén-Alegret and Wladyka weave themes of livelihood, social participation, justice and equity into human and planetary sustainability debates, drawing on quantitative population data as well as qualitative information on challenges for rural and small town sustainability in four different European countries (Portugal, France, Spain and England). Highlighting the interlinked relationship between rural sustainability, migration and ethnic diversity, this research is a valuable resource for policy-makers and academics alike, with far-reaching implications across geography, sociology, political science, anthropology and environmental sciences. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Introduction: Small Can Be More Than Beautiful (Ricard Morén-Alegret, Dawid Wladyka)....Pages 1-15 Front Matter ....Pages 17-17 Conceptualising (Rural) Sustainability in the Migration Age (Ricard Morén-Alegret, Dawid Wladyka)....Pages 19-45 Integration, Immigration and Sustainability in European Small Towns and Rural Areas: Achieving Long-Term Immigrants’ Settlement Beyond the Metropolitan Areas? (Ricard Morén-Alegret, Dawid Wladyka)....Pages 47-107 Front Matter ....Pages 109-109 International Comparative Research in Europe: Introducing Research Methods (Ricard Morén-Alegret, Dawid Wladyka)....Pages 111-127 Southern Europe: Comparing the Cases of Empordà in NE Catalonia, Spain, and Alentejo Litoral in SW Portugal (Ricard Morén-Alegret, Dawid Wladyka)....Pages 129-205 North-West Europe: Comparing the Cases of South Warwickshire in Central England, UK, and of Poitou-Charentes in New Aquitaine, West France (Ricard Morén-Alegret, Dawid Wladyka)....Pages 207-291 Front Matter ....Pages 293-294 Final Considerations: How to Improve Future Policies on Rural and Small-Town Sustainability and Immigrants’ Integration? (Ricard Morén-Alegret, Dawid Wladyka)....Pages 295-318 Back Matter ....Pages 319-380