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Lehtonen, Olli; Tykkylainen, Markku – Journal of Rural Studies, 2010
All the time the long economic growth period of 1992-2008 prevailed in Finland, the economic landscape was changing constantly and markedly. We analyse in this article how net migration plagued certain less competitive, mainly rural push-lose municipalities, and boosted in-migration to the pull-win municipalities in metropolitan environments…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Municipalities, Metropolitan Areas, Foreign Countries
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Guimond, Laurie; Simard, Myriam – Journal of Rural Studies, 2010
Rural gentrification, which is linked in particular to the migration and permanent settlement in the countryside of middle-class or affluent urbanites, is increasingly affecting contemporary rural communities. Despite the significance of this trend, the complex and many-sided phenomenon of rural gentrification has hardly been explored in scholarly…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries, Migration