Migrants' experiences of material and emotional security in rural Scotland: Implications for longer-term settlement
Migrants' experiences of material and emotional security in rural Scotland: Implications for longer-term settlement
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.03.010
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发表时间：
2017-05-01
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Kay, Rebecca
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作者：
Flynn, Moya;Kay, Rebecca
利用对生活和工作在苏格兰农村地区的中东欧(CEE)移民的定性研究，本文探讨了是什么促进了长期居留的愿望，以及这与社会保障理论和移民主导的常态理解之间的关系。这篇文章有三个独创性的贡献：(I)对苏格兰农村移民和定居的物质和情感方面之间的关系的新的经验性见解；(Ii)更好地理解农村移民的不同生活经历；(Iii)通过关注较长期的定居而不是季节性或循环的移民，关注向农村移民的性质变化。这篇文章由三个关键问题构成：移民在多大程度上积极选择农村目的地？在特定的苏格兰背景下，移民的经历是如何被乡村生活的现实塑造的？移民如何通过他们对正常生活的理解来解释这些经历？这对长期计划有何影响？本文提供的定性见解对其他农村地区的政策和实践具有更广泛的相关性和意义，并有助于揭示农村社会制度如何能够更好地作出反应，从而使“新”移民地区可以发展成为积极的聚居地。(C)2017年作者。爱思唯尔有限公司出版。
Drawing on qualitative research with Central and East European (CEE) migrants living and working in rural areas of Scotland, this article explores what it is that facilitates a desire to stay longer term and how this relates to theorisations of social security and migrant-led understandings of normality. The article makes three original contributions: (i) new empirical insight into the relationship between material and emotional aspects of migration and settlement in Scottish rural contexts; (ii) greater understanding of rural migrants' diverse lived experiences; (iii) attention to the changing nature of migration to rural contexts through a focus on longer-term settlement rather than seasonal or circular migration. The article is structured by three key questions: To what extent are rural destinations actively chosen by migrants? How are migrants' experiences shaped by the realities of rural life in the particular Scottish contexts studied? How do migrants interpret these experiences through their understandings of a normal life and how does this impact on longer-term plans? The qualitative insight which the article provides has wider relevance and significance for policy and practice across other rural contexts and can help to reveal ways in which rural social systems could better respond so that areas of 'new' migration may develop into positive places of settlement. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.