Round-up: Refugees & Migrants in Small Towns & Rural Areas

This listing includes blog posts, journal articles and reports as of 2020.

Blog posts & press:

The smaller the better? Migration governance in small and medium-sized towns and rural areas in times of crises (MPC Blog, June 2020) [text]

Syrian refugees and the transformation of Turkey’s rural areas (Southern Response to Displacement, March 2020) [text]

Two Worlds Apart? Comparing Local Integration Politics in Urban and Rural Municipalities in Germany (FAU, July 2020) [text]

Reports:

Building Welcome from the Ground up: European Small and Rural Communities Engaging in Refugee Resettlement (Migration Policy Institute, Nov. 2020) [text]

How to Turn Rural Europe into a Welcoming Space for Migrants (Istituto Affari Internazionali, Dec. 2020) [text]

Integration of migrants in middle and small cities and in rural areas in Europe (European Commission, April 2020) [text]

Why Migrants Stay in Small and Mid-Sized Canadian Cities: Towards a New Analytical Framework Using a Life Course Approach, Working Paper, no. 12 (Ryerson Univ., Sept. 2020) [text]

Journal articles:

"Access to and Exclusion from Housing Over Time: Refugees' Experiences in Rural Areas," International Migration, Early View, 13 Dec. 2020 [open access]

- Focuses on Germany.

"Being far away from what you need: the impact of dispersal on resettled refugees’ homemaking and place attachment in small to medium-sized towns in the Netherlands," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 2 Dec. 2020 [open access]

"Context, Commitment, and Competency: A Refugee-community Partnership Model for Smaller Urban Communities in the United States," Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, Latest Articles, 14 April 2020 [ResearchGate]

"Does Community Size Matter in the Settlement Process? The Experience of Syrian Refugees in Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Latest Articles, 4 July 2020 [free full-text]

"Integration and social determinants of health and wellbeing for people from refugee backgrounds resettled in a rural town in South Australia: a qualitative study," BMC Public Health, 20:1700 (Nov. 2020) [open access]

"Is Social Contact with the Resident Population a Prerequisite of Well-Being and Place Attachment? The Case of Refugees in Rural Regions of Germany," Frontiers in Sociology, 18 Dec. 2020 [open access]

"Migrant and Refugee Impact on Wellbeing in Rural Areas: Reframing Rural Development Challenges in Greece," Frontiers in Sociology, 11 March 2021 [open access]

"Political Hedgehogs: The Geographical Sorting of Refugees in Sweden," Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, vol. 122, no. 4 (2020) [full-text]

"Refugees and the transforming landscapes of small cities in the US," Urban Geography, Latest Articles, 2 July 2020 [ResearchGate]

"Refugees’ Encounters with the Nordic Rural: Darkness, Wind and 'Hygge'," Frontiers in Sociology, 15 March 2021 [open access]

- Focuses on Norway and Denmark. 

"The Regional Migration-Development Nexus in Australia: What Migration? Whose Development?," Frontiers in Sociology, 11 Feb. 2021 [open access]

Journal issues:

Journal of Alpine Research = Revue de géographie alpine, no. 108-2 (2020) [open access]

- Special issue on "Refugié·es et montagne = Refugees and Mountain."

Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 36, nos. 2&3 (2020) [delayed open access]

- Special issue on "L'accueil hors des grandes villes = The Reception of Exiles Outside Big Cities." See also research digest that relates to the article on Quebec.