Abstract
Based on original data, this article discusses rural‒urban mobilities and the contemporary employment‒migration relationship. Starting with the observation of reduced rural population but maintained family-farm numbers, it engages with multiple issues, including rural employment, the process of urban migration, settlement in the city, the relation of migrants to the rurality and (return) counter-migration. It supports the thesis that migration is not so much about a ‘movement from one place to another’, the classical migration definition, and more about a coupling of practices (related to mobilities, residence, employment, etc.) with places over time. Thus, migration and counter-migration are conceptualized as socio-spatial strategies, conceptualized as ‘multi-place living’ or ‘dual life’, which are based on variable engagements with rural farming, urban wage labour and return movements (for retirement, refuge, etc.). The newly emergent and growing dual/multi-place structures that result from this are re-shaping village life in particular, expressed in various ways, such as in a changing village demography and function.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 513-530 |
Journal | Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 5 |
Early online date | 8 Dec 2017 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Keywords
- Counter-urbanization
- Peasants
- Precarity
- Rural-Urban mobilities
- Turkey