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