Alan Stockdale
Biographic Data
| ID | 215370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Stockdale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Stockdale |
| SIGNATURE | STOCKDALE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7363-4915 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 560 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
What's love got to do with it? Love-life gossip and migration intentions in rural Iceland
At the intersection of urbanisation and counterurbanisation in rural space
Planning to stay in the countryside
Staying in a state of flux
Few studies examine immobility or staying as a demographic process worthy of investigation. This paper seeks to address this gap in the literature. It uses a life course approach to analyse interviews with young adults who continue to reside in their rural home areas of Northern Ireland and the Netherlands. Our analysis relates to stayers' biographies and linked lives, staying as a state of flux, and staying as an attachment to (rural) place. Sta…
S/elective belonging
Rural stayers are often defined as people who have never left their rural home region or village. However, rural regions and villages also receive new inhabitants. This paper explores if and how newcomers become inhabitants who stay put. We do so by interviewing couples of newcomers who moved to a rural area of the Netherlands at the family formation life stage. All had moved between 5 and 10 years prior to this study. We view the process of beco…
From ‘Trailing Wives’ to the Emergence of a ‘Trailing Husbands’ Phenomenon
Migration and gender studies have focused on economically active heterogeneous couples and traditionally highlight a dominant male role in migration decision-making. The female partner is commonly portrayed as a 'trailing wife' or 'trailing mother' with the move found to have a negative effect on her employment prospects. Much less is known about if or how the balance of power shifts between husbands and wives when employment or career-motivated …
Contemporary and ‘Messy’ Rural In-migration Processes
This paper questions the ongoing dominant coverage given to counterurbanisation in the rural population literature. It is argued that this provides only a partial account of the true diversity of contemporary migration processes operating in rural areas and has the potential to fuse together different in-migration processes. Specifically, lateral rural migration has been under-researched to date. Using empirical data from a survey of 260 migrant …
Evolving national park models
Unravelling the migration decision-making process
There are established migrant reasons to explain rural in-migration. These include quality of life, rural idyll and lifestyle motivations. However, such one-dimensional sound bites portray rural in-migration in overly simplistic and stereotypical terms. In contrast, this paper distinguishes the decision to move from the reason for moving and in doing so sheds new light on the interconnections between different domains (family, work, finance, heal…
Rural Migration, Agrarian Change, and Institutional Dynamics
Overall, this special issue provides insights into the mutually constitutive ways in which rapid economic development associated with industrialisation drives institutional change, migration and mobility, and, finally, altered relationships between – and conceptions of – rural and urban. The following papers pose important conceptual, normative as well as practical, policy‐relevant questions relating to the human consequences of these processes a…
Pre-retirement age migration to remote rural areas
Connected Life Courses
This paper aims to contribute to the theorisation of midlife migration into rural areas. Although the factors influencing migration are known to be variable at different stages of a person's life, much less well understood is how migration decisions at different stages of the life course are connected and how post‐migration experiences may be influenced by an earlier life course stage. We argue that midlife migration decisions are the product of …
A Life Course Perspective on Urban–Rural Migration
The relationship between migration and age has long been established, and most recently, there have been calls for the inclusion of a life course perspective to migration research. In this paper, we explore Northern Ireland's internal migration patterns, and in particular, we test for the importance of urban to rural migration at different stages of the life course. Data from the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study are used for the first time to …
Community Perspectives on the Impact of Climate Change on Health in Nunavut, Canada
The purpose of this study was to explore community perspectives on the most important ways that climate change is affecting the health of northern peoples. The study was conducted in Iqaluit, Nunavut, using a participatory action approach and the photovoice research method. Participants identified themes and patterns in the data and developed a visual model of the relationships between the themes identified. Five themes emerged from the data: the…
A review of demographic ageing in the UK
Demographic ageing is a global phenomenon. UK policy and research have, until recently, focused on national trends and implications and largely viewed ageing as a ‘pensions and care’ problem. While other and more positive aspects are beginning to be acknowledged, regional, local, and rural impacts remain underinvestigated. This paper, by reviewing the literature from several disciplines and countries, introduces a series of research questions tha…
The diverse geographies of rural gentrification in Scotland
Sustainability and the multifunctional landscape
The role of a ‘retirement transition’ in the repopulation of rural areas
Two of the most important demographic trends to emerge in recent decades have been the growth of a highly mobile ageing population and a deconcentration of persons from urban to rural areas. This paper investigates Bures' (1997) retirement transition hypothesis for the mobility patterns of pre‐retirement age groups in relation to the repopulation of rural areas of England and Scotland. It incorporates household survey data relating to the migrati…
Migration
Rural Out-Migration
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In what sense English? an exploration of English migrant identities and identification
The empirical focus of this article is an analysis of the self‐identities of English‐born persons living in urban Scotland. The material is theorised relative to the debate between modernist conceptions of identity and post‐structuralist notions of identification. The researchers construct a fourfold typology of ‘English’ migrants that helps to problematise the nature and diverse meanings of ‘Englishness’. The search to understand why many Englis…
The Structuring of Service-class Migration
The paper explores the mobility implications of internationalisation and commercialisation of the service class. Theorisation of the survey points to five main issues: first, the role of migration of service workers as part of a network of flows linking the core of the state with regional economies; secondly, the disproportionate concentration of service-class migration in one particular city within a regional economy; thirdly, the inadequacy of …
Towards a typology of out‐migration from peripheral areas
During an era of counterurbanisation, the continued out‐migration of selected groups from rural areas has largely been ignored. This paper focuses on the nature of contemporary rural out‐migration flows and the relative importance of influencing factors in the decision‐making process, using questionnaire data and personal narratives from individual out‐migrants from rural Scotland. The analysis demonstrates the complexity of the decision‐making p…
Professional and managerial migration from core to periphery
The population of English‐born persons living in Scotland has risen rapidly since 1971. The dynamics of the group are theorised in this paper relative to the escalator region hypothesis, in terms of the role of professional and managerial staff linking global cities with lower‐order urban centres within their hinterland. A hierarchical log‐linear modelling approach is taken in explaining the highly structured geography of English migration to Sco…
Out-migration from rural Scotland
The decision-making processes involved at various stages in the out-migration of individuals from remote parts of rural Scotland are examined. Some two hundred migrants, now residing throughout the United Kingdom, were traced using a variety of means. Quantitative and qualitative research methods were incorporated so that the advantages and disadvantages of these approaches complement and counterbalance each other. The investigation focuses on th…
Migration
The repopulation of rural Scotland
Contemporary and ‘Messy’ Rural In-migration Processes
This paper questions the ongoing dominant coverage given to counterurbanisation in the rural population literature. It is argued that this provides only a partial account of the true diversity of contemporary migration processes operating in rural areas and has the potential to fuse together different in-migration processes. Specifically, lateral rural migration has been under-researched to date. Using empirical data from a survey of 260 migrant …
The diverse geographies of rural gentrification in Scotland
Staying in a state of flux
Few studies examine immobility or staying as a demographic process worthy of investigation. This paper seeks to address this gap in the literature. It uses a life course approach to analyse interviews with young adults who continue to reside in their rural home areas of Northern Ireland and the Netherlands. Our analysis relates to stayers' biographies and linked lives, staying as a state of flux, and staying as an attachment to (rural) place. Sta…
A Life Course Perspective on Urban–Rural Migration
The relationship between migration and age has long been established, and most recently, there have been calls for the inclusion of a life course perspective to migration research. In this paper, we explore Northern Ireland's internal migration patterns, and in particular, we test for the importance of urban to rural migration at different stages of the life course. Data from the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study are used for the first time to …
Pre-retirement age migration to remote rural areas
Unravelling the migration decision-making process
There are established migrant reasons to explain rural in-migration. These include quality of life, rural idyll and lifestyle motivations. However, such one-dimensional sound bites portray rural in-migration in overly simplistic and stereotypical terms. In contrast, this paper distinguishes the decision to move from the reason for moving and in doing so sheds new light on the interconnections between different domains (family, work, finance, heal…
Waiting for the cure
This paper maps out the relationships between key participants in cystic fibrosis (CF) gene therapy research. These include relationships among researchers, physicians, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF), people with CF, and their families. Due to the structure of these relationships, aspects of the research process are at odds with the interests of people with CF. The CFF as an organisation focuses narrowly on a particular research agenda to t…
Rural Out-Migration
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S/elective belonging
Rural stayers are often defined as people who have never left their rural home region or village. However, rural regions and villages also receive new inhabitants. This paper explores if and how newcomers become inhabitants who stay put. We do so by interviewing couples of newcomers who moved to a rural area of the Netherlands at the family formation life stage. All had moved between 5 and 10 years prior to this study. We view the process of beco…
Out-migration from rural Scotland
The decision-making processes involved at various stages in the out-migration of individuals from remote parts of rural Scotland are examined. Some two hundred migrants, now residing throughout the United Kingdom, were traced using a variety of means. Quantitative and qualitative research methods were incorporated so that the advantages and disadvantages of these approaches complement and counterbalance each other. The investigation focuses on th…
Towards a typology of out‐migration from peripheral areas
During an era of counterurbanisation, the continued out‐migration of selected groups from rural areas has largely been ignored. This paper focuses on the nature of contemporary rural out‐migration flows and the relative importance of influencing factors in the decision‐making process, using questionnaire data and personal narratives from individual out‐migrants from rural Scotland. The analysis demonstrates the complexity of the decision‐making p…
At the intersection of urbanisation and counterurbanisation in rural space
State intervention and the impact on rural mobility flows in Northern Ireland
From ‘Trailing Wives’ to the Emergence of a ‘Trailing Husbands’ Phenomenon
Migration and gender studies have focused on economically active heterogeneous couples and traditionally highlight a dominant male role in migration decision-making. The female partner is commonly portrayed as a 'trailing wife' or 'trailing mother' with the move found to have a negative effect on her employment prospects. Much less is known about if or how the balance of power shifts between husbands and wives when employment or career-motivated …
Connected Life Courses
This paper aims to contribute to the theorisation of midlife migration into rural areas. Although the factors influencing migration are known to be variable at different stages of a person's life, much less well understood is how migration decisions at different stages of the life course are connected and how post‐migration experiences may be influenced by an earlier life course stage. We argue that midlife migration decisions are the product of …
Planning to stay in the countryside
Sustainability and the multifunctional landscape
The role of a ‘retirement transition’ in the repopulation of rural areas
Two of the most important demographic trends to emerge in recent decades have been the growth of a highly mobile ageing population and a deconcentration of persons from urban to rural areas. This paper investigates Bures' (1997) retirement transition hypothesis for the mobility patterns of pre‐retirement age groups in relation to the repopulation of rural areas of England and Scotland. It incorporates household survey data relating to the migrati…
Mobility as a driver of change in rural Britain
Policy‐makers are concerned with issues relating commuting to service provision. To make informed judgements on such topics requires an understanding of the nature of mobility cultures. This article explores the mobility cultures of rural residents. In particular, it investigates the association between migration, travel to work and travel to shop. Log‐linear analysis is used to show that the journey to work is a defining variable in mobility cul…
In what sense English? an exploration of English migrant identities and identification
The empirical focus of this article is an analysis of the self‐identities of English‐born persons living in urban Scotland. The material is theorised relative to the debate between modernist conceptions of identity and post‐structuralist notions of identification. The researchers construct a fourfold typology of ‘English’ migrants that helps to problematise the nature and diverse meanings of ‘Englishness’. The search to understand why many Englis…
The Structuring of Service-class Migration
The paper explores the mobility implications of internationalisation and commercialisation of the service class. Theorisation of the survey points to five main issues: first, the role of migration of service workers as part of a network of flows linking the core of the state with regional economies; secondly, the disproportionate concentration of service-class migration in one particular city within a regional economy; thirdly, the inadequacy of …
Professional and managerial migration from core to periphery
The population of English‐born persons living in Scotland has risen rapidly since 1971. The dynamics of the group are theorised in this paper relative to the escalator region hypothesis, in terms of the role of professional and managerial staff linking global cities with lower‐order urban centres within their hinterland. A hierarchical log‐linear modelling approach is taken in explaining the highly structured geography of English migration to Sco…
Land use change on Scottish highland estates
State intervention and the impact on rural mobility flows in Northern Ireland
Land use change on Scottish highland estates
Stop Talking about Science
Changing land tenure patterns in Scotland
Flexible Bodies
Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity In American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS. EMILY MARTIN. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994. xlv + 320 pp., illustrations, notes, references, index
Forgotten Needs? The Demographic and Socio-economic Impact of Free-standing New Settlements
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Waiting for the cure
This paper maps out the relationships between key participants in cystic fibrosis (CF) gene therapy research. These include relationships among researchers, physicians, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF), people with CF, and their families. Due to the structure of these relationships, aspects of the research process are at odds with the interests of people with CF. The CFF as an organisation focuses narrowly on a particular research agenda to t…
The repopulation of rural Scotland
Mobility as a driver of change in rural Britain
Policy‐makers are concerned with issues relating commuting to service provision. To make informed judgements on such topics requires an understanding of the nature of mobility cultures. This article explores the mobility cultures of rural residents. In particular, it investigates the association between migration, travel to work and travel to shop. Log‐linear analysis is used to show that the journey to work is a defining variable in mobility cul…
Towards a typology of out‐migration from peripheral areas
During an era of counterurbanisation, the continued out‐migration of selected groups from rural areas has largely been ignored. This paper focuses on the nature of contemporary rural out‐migration flows and the relative importance of influencing factors in the decision‐making process, using questionnaire data and personal narratives from individual out‐migrants from rural Scotland. The analysis demonstrates the complexity of the decision‐making p…
Professional and managerial migration from core to periphery
The population of English‐born persons living in Scotland has risen rapidly since 1971. The dynamics of the group are theorised in this paper relative to the escalator region hypothesis, in terms of the role of professional and managerial staff linking global cities with lower‐order urban centres within their hinterland. A hierarchical log‐linear modelling approach is taken in explaining the highly structured geography of English migration to Sco…
Out-migration from rural Scotland
The decision-making processes involved at various stages in the out-migration of individuals from remote parts of rural Scotland are examined. Some two hundred migrants, now residing throughout the United Kingdom, were traced using a variety of means. Quantitative and qualitative research methods were incorporated so that the advantages and disadvantages of these approaches complement and counterbalance each other. The investigation focuses on th…
The Structuring of Service-class Migration
The paper explores the mobility implications of internationalisation and commercialisation of the service class. Theorisation of the survey points to five main issues: first, the role of migration of service workers as part of a network of flows linking the core of the state with regional economies; secondly, the disproportionate concentration of service-class migration in one particular city within a regional economy; thirdly, the inadequacy of …
Rural Out-Migration
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
In what sense English? an exploration of English migrant identities and identification
The empirical focus of this article is an analysis of the self‐identities of English‐born persons living in urban Scotland. The material is theorised relative to the debate between modernist conceptions of identity and post‐structuralist notions of identification. The researchers construct a fourfold typology of ‘English’ migrants that helps to problematise the nature and diverse meanings of ‘Englishness’. The search to understand why many Englis…
The role of a ‘retirement transition’ in the repopulation of rural areas
Two of the most important demographic trends to emerge in recent decades have been the growth of a highly mobile ageing population and a deconcentration of persons from urban to rural areas. This paper investigates Bures' (1997) retirement transition hypothesis for the mobility patterns of pre‐retirement age groups in relation to the repopulation of rural areas of England and Scotland. It incorporates household survey data relating to the migrati…
Migration
The diverse geographies of rural gentrification in Scotland
Sustainability and the multifunctional landscape
Community Perspectives on the Impact of Climate Change on Health in Nunavut, Canada
The purpose of this study was to explore community perspectives on the most important ways that climate change is affecting the health of northern peoples. The study was conducted in Iqaluit, Nunavut, using a participatory action approach and the photovoice research method. Participants identified themes and patterns in the data and developed a visual model of the relationships between the themes identified. Five themes emerged from the data: the…
A review of demographic ageing in the UK
Demographic ageing is a global phenomenon. UK policy and research have, until recently, focused on national trends and implications and largely viewed ageing as a ‘pensions and care’ problem. While other and more positive aspects are beginning to be acknowledged, regional, local, and rural impacts remain underinvestigated. This paper, by reviewing the literature from several disciplines and countries, introduces a series of research questions tha…
Connected Life Courses
This paper aims to contribute to the theorisation of midlife migration into rural areas. Although the factors influencing migration are known to be variable at different stages of a person's life, much less well understood is how migration decisions at different stages of the life course are connected and how post‐migration experiences may be influenced by an earlier life course stage. We argue that midlife migration decisions are the product of …
A Life Course Perspective on Urban–Rural Migration
The relationship between migration and age has long been established, and most recently, there have been calls for the inclusion of a life course perspective to migration research. In this paper, we explore Northern Ireland's internal migration patterns, and in particular, we test for the importance of urban to rural migration at different stages of the life course. Data from the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study are used for the first time to …
Rural Migration, Agrarian Change, and Institutional Dynamics
Overall, this special issue provides insights into the mutually constitutive ways in which rapid economic development associated with industrialisation drives institutional change, migration and mobility, and, finally, altered relationships between – and conceptions of – rural and urban. The following papers pose important conceptual, normative as well as practical, policy‐relevant questions relating to the human consequences of these processes a…
Pre-retirement age migration to remote rural areas
Geography (25 works) · Political science (25 works) · Rural development and sustainability (24 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Economics (23 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (18 works) · Economic growth (15 works) · Economic geography (13 works) · Rural area (12 works) · Demographic economics (11 works)