International Workshop
 
 
 
 
.... Abstracts  
 
 
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FOREIGN IMMIGRATION IN SMALL TOWNS AND RURAL AREAS
Privileged places for integration?
 

Contributions by invited speakers:

- Keith Halfacree, University of Wales (UK):
Revisiting ‘counterurbanisation’: recognising the full picture

- Ben Rogaly, University of Sussex (UK):
Employment of migrant workers in UK agriculture: in whose interests?

- Petra Vergunst, Scottish Agricultural College (The Netherlands/UK):
In-migration, power and community cohesion

- Knut Hiddle, Agder Forskning (Norway)
Transgression and reproduction: On diversity, otherness and mobility in the multicultural place/space

- Charalambos Kasimis, Agricultural University of Athens (Greece):
The economic and social dimensions of the presence of migrants in the Greek rural regions: evidence from empirical research

- Maria Lucinda Fonseca, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal):
New waves: immigration to small towns and rural areas in Portugal

- Ricard Morén-Alegret, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain):
International immigrants’ integration in rural areas and small towns in Spain

- Graeme Hugo, University of Adelaide (Australia):
Immigrant settlement outside of Australia's major cities


Other contributions to the workshop:

- Maren Borkert:
Integration policies and local reactions on immigrants in the rural area of Luzzara, Italy

- Raúl Ruiz Callado, University of Alicante:
Extranjeros en el pueblo. Estudio de caso de la inmigración extranjera en los municipios del interior de la provincia de Alicante

 
 
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