Tialda Haartsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 246107 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tialda Haartsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tialda |
| FAMILY NAME | Haartsen |
| SIGNATURE | HAARTSEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3858-3419 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 464 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
From precarious employment to self-employment: Agency and adaptation among China’s internal return migrants
Migrant workers often experience job mobility and employment instability, making their work inherently vulnerable and insecure. For some, self-employment offers reprieve, providing greater control over working conditions and creating long-term stability. Drawing on qualitative research in Shu County, Anhui Province, an interior labor sending region, this study examines how the migration histories of return migrants shape their transition to becom…
Created, Initiated and Maintained: Rural Residents’ Agency in (Re‐)Producing Social Infrastructure and Participative Practices in Their Villages
The centralisation of public and private services in many rural areas has led to a loss of local spaces for social interaction and community engagement. In light of these changes, we investigate residents’ agency in (re‐)producing social infrastructure and participative practices in their villages. Our analysis of semi‐structured interviews revealed four distinct activities: ‘creating social infrastructure’, ‘maintaining social infrastructure’, ‘…
Dedication to the dwelling and neighbourhood? Rural-urban differences in determinants of mid-to-later-life homeowners to age@home
The highlights of the paper ‘Dedication to the dwelling and neighbourhood? Rural-urban differences in determinants of mid-to-later-life homeowners to age@home’ are: • Rural 55-plus homeowners are particularly attached to their home and neighbourhood • Urban senior homeowners find proximity to amenities decisive to stay independently • 75-plus rural homeowners are more likely to age@home compared to urban ones • Rural older homeowners embrace mult…
Self‐Reported Motives for Immobility or Constraints to Moving: A Review and Assessment of Ten Survey Measures
Self‐reported motives for residential immobility are important for understanding why people remain in place, yet existing survey measures vary widely and suffer from a lack of standardisation. We review self‐report measures about motives for immobility or constraints to moving—measured with survey items asking what made it difficult for respondents to relocate—in ten existing surveys. We report several advantages and disadvantages of different ap…
What typifies participatory art projects in the countryside? A quantitative study of the rural-urban continuum of community-based art initiatives
As participatory art projects sprout from local communities, differences across the rural-urban continuum can be expected. Strong self-organisational capacity in tight-knit rural communities, the concentration of cultural facilities in urban areas, or context-specific issues such as gentrification or regional deprivation might play a role in where and in what form participatory art projects emerge. The scarcity of quantitative and rural studies o…
Leaving for Good or Coming Back? Identifying Long‐Term Internal Migration Trajectories of Rural Young Adults in the Netherlands
To counteract the effects of young adult out‐migration, rural areas are increasingly interested in whether leavers return, and when and why they do so. However, little is known about their migration trajectories after departure. Their out‐migration is often studied as a one‐time event, even though it marks the start of a dynamic life phase with numerous events that potentially lead to residential relocations. To capture long‐term migration trajec…
Internal return migrants as agents of change: Factory labor, home-based production, and entrepreneurship in China’s garment industry
‘No way! I'll stay! Who will get me out of here?’ House attachment and staying intentions of homeowners with a damaged dwelling in a rural risk area
Few studies have investigated staying intentions and house attachment of residents who are confronted with physical damage to their dwelling in a risk area. This paper examines whether and how homeowners who are confronted with human-induced risks and the consequences of gas extraction in the Dutch Groningen rural earthquake region are attached to their damaged dwellings and why they stay. A content analysis was performed on 92 published intervie…
I am Here to Peidu ’: Children's Education as a Motive for Women's Return Migration
This study investigates the relationship between children's education and return migration patterns among Chinese migrant women through the practice of peidu (accompanying children during their studies). Drawing on in‐depth interviews with 11 mothers aged 30–55 and participant observations in Qianshan, we examined how and why migrant women shape their return migration decisions around their children's education. Our research is contextualised wit…
The potential of local online shopping platforms for villages and small and medium-sized towns
For decades, many rural areas and small and medium-sized towns (SMSTs) have struggled with a declining number of retailers and shops. While it was argued that digitalisation can help businesses to counteract the rural penalty, little empirical evidence has been collected so far. With this study, we shed a light on the possibilities and limitations of local online shopping platforms to foster the local retail economy by digital means in the rural …
To buy or not to buy a home in a rural risk area’ by mid-to-later life home purchasers
Few studies on residential mobility of ageing adults to rural areas have investigated which of them buy a home in a rural risk area. This paper examines which socio-demographic characteristics, housing attributes and earthquake circumstances influence the actual choice of mid-to-later life adults to purchase a house in a rural risk area. The study focuses on housing transactions in the Dutch Groningen rural earthquake region, compared to transact…
Closest family in the household or in the community? The role of family in residential satisfaction among intended stayers in Iceland
The salience of family in residential satisfaction and staying in rural communities has been well established. However, the relative importance family in the households and wider networks of family ties remains unclear, as well as the extent to which such associations can be found across the urban–rural continuum. This study contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the role of family in residential satisfaction and residential decision‐maki…
The role of non‐resident family ties in rural staying
Internal migration research is paying increasing attention to the role in migration behaviour of having non‐resident family—family living outside of the household—living close by, and also to non‐migration and staying in general. Combining these two themes, this paper investigates the role of non‐resident family ties in rural staying for adults aged 31–64. Using a mixed methods analysis of survey and interview data from the Netherlands, Germany a…
The journey of staying: A transitional and mobility perspective on the staying rural preferences of rural young adults
This article presents insight into rural young adults' reflections on their past, present and future staying rural preferences (transitional perspective) and how they relate to their experiences and connections outside the rural home area (mobility perspective). Using a biographical approach, we conducted 12 semi-structured interviews with young employed adults living with their parents or alone in two rural areas in the Netherlands and Northern …
To participate, or not to participate – That is the question. (Non-)participation of older residents in rural communities
In recent years, rural residents' participation within their local communities has attracted attention within scientific and political debates that focus on sustaining or improving the quality of life in villages. Retired older people feature centrally in these discussions, as they are perceived to have the time and life experience to participate in various local activities. This paper contributes to the existing literature through an examination…
Beyond the (im)mobility and social‐environmental dichotomy: Young adults' motives to reside in rural northwest Europe
In line with the increased attention for residential experiences of young adults in rural areas, this paper explores the diversity of residential motives and combines them into overarching residential orientations. Based on survey data, we distinguish five residential orientations on rural identity, family, livability, housing and employment. These orientations are analysed on the basis of residential history, expectation to stay, agency about re…
Immigration, spatial inequality and place attractiveness
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no data sets were generated or analysed during the current study
The appreciation of rural areas and their contribution to young adults’ staying expectations
Decisions to live in a certain place or region are partly prompted by material and symbolic factors of that place or region. This paper focuses on the importance of these factors for rural young adults based on a household survey in three rural areas in the Netherlands, Northern Ireland and Germany. It examines how rural young adults appreciate material and symbolic factors, and to what extent they play a role in their expectations to stay in the…
The time and place of social mixing: Everyday rhythms of long-term residents and newcomers in a Dutch neighborhood
Despite research questioning the beneficial effects of social mixing interventions, urban governments continue to strive for a social mix. In this paper we examine the effects of social mixing through the concept of rhythm. We paint an ethnographic portrait of a disadvantaged area in the city of Groningen, The Netherlands, which was targeted by a social mixing intervention. We analyze everyday rhythms of newcomers and long-term low-income residen…
Staying for the benefits: Location‐specific insider advantages for geographically im mobile students in higher education
In the youth mobility research, young people's geographical immobility is often associated with negative connotations. This paper challenges this discourse by analysing the location‐specific insider advantages (LSIAs) of geographically immobile young adults in higher education institutions (HEI). We use data from a survey of students in two locations in Denmark: the peripheral city of Esbjerg and the metropolis of Copenhagen. We categorise studen…
A tale of three villages: Local housing policies, well‐being and encounters between residents and immigrants
This article examines how the location, function and quality of immigrant accommodation facilities, regulated by local housing policies, shape the perceived effects of immigration on the well‐being of residents and immigrants in three villages in the Netherlands. Drawing on semistructured interviews with local government representatives, residents and Romanian and Polish immigrants, we show how the different locations of the immigrant accommodati…
The impact of school bullying on adolescent migration expectations in Iceland
Adolescent migration expectations are shaped by various background characteristics, social relations, and lifestyle considerations. However, the impact of negative social experiences in adolescent society on migration expectations received limited attention. Research on the social consequences of school bullying has nevertheless demonstrated that bullying often leads to social withdrawal and place avoidance. In this study, we examine the potentia…
Symbolic mobility capital to fight the social stigma of staying: How young adults re-imagine narratives of ‘leaving’ during higher education
Although the outmigration choices of young adults from peripheral to urban regions to attend higher education have been researched extensively, young adults’ decisions to stay in, nearby, or return to, the peripheral home region have received less attention. This paper explores how young adults who are engaged in higher education re-imagine narratives related to notions of ‘leaving’ in their mobility biographies to justify their choice to stay in…
What's love got to do with it? Love-life gossip and migration intentions in rural Iceland
Dealing with the loss of the village supermarket: The perceived effects two years after closure
In 2015, the local supermarket of the depopulating village of Ulrum closed its doors. After a first survey around the closure, a second survey was conducted two years later, to investigate changes in the different meanings of the local supermarket and the perceived effects of its closure over time. The results show that respondents state that the liveability and status of the village have decreased because of the loss of the supermarket. This str…
Migration intentions of rural youth in the Westhoek, Flanders, Belgium and the Veenkoloniën, The Netherlands
The success–failure dichotomy revisited: Young adults' motives to return to their rural home region
Researchers are increasingly aware that nonlinear perspectives of the transition into adulthood and non-economic motives, such as family and friends, may help to improve our understanding of young adults' migration decisions. This paper combines these new insights with the traditional economic success–failure arguments in order to explain young adults' return migration to their rural home region. We present four orientations in return motives: th…
Staying in a state of flux: A life course perspective on the diverse staying processes of rural young adults
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…
Migration to less-popular rural areas in the Netherlands: Exploring the motivations
The challenge of proximity: The (Un)attractiveness of Near-Home Tourism Destinations
Imaginaries of touristic otherness have traditionally been closely related to geographical distance and travel far away from the everyday. But in today's context of sustainable tourism, a moral and behavioral shift may be expected, toward traveling near home. Distance may actually become a disadvantage and proximity a new commodity. This implies a need to disentangle subjective understandings of both distance and proximity in relation to perceive…
Identifying social innovations in European local rural development initiatives
Social innovation is attracting increasing attention in research and policy, heightened by continuing austerity across Europe. Therefore, this paper examines earlier research into community-led local development (CLLD) initiatives in rural areas of Europe to develop our understanding of the meaning and scope of rural social innovation. We draw on a Schumpeterian view where innovations emerge from new combinations of resources that bring about pos…
More than Counter‐urbanisation: Migration to Popular and Less‐popular Rural Areas in the Netherlands
Migration into rural areas in Western countries is often explained by the pull of the rural idyll for urban, middle‐class migrants. Although previous research has shown that this counter‐urbanisation model is insufficient to explain rural immigration in sparsely populated countries, this paper shows that also within core regions, more diverse conceptualisations of migration into rural areas are required. This is achieved by distinguishing popular…
S/elective belonging: How rural newcomer families with children become stayers
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…
The appreciation of rural areas and their contribution to young adults’ staying expectations
Decisions to live in a certain place or region are partly prompted by material and symbolic factors of that place or region. This paper focuses on the importance of these factors for rural young adults based on a household survey in three rural areas in the Netherlands, Northern Ireland and Germany. It examines how rural young adults appreciate material and symbolic factors, and to what extent they play a role in their expectations to stay in the…
The influence of village attractiveness on flows of movers in a declining rural region
Planning for Decline: Anticipating on Population Decline in the Netherlands
Some regions in The Netherlands have been experiencing population decline in the last decade(s). Although decline figures are much lower than in more traditional areas of decline in Europe, Dutch planners and policy‐makers feel the need to develop several strategies of planning for decline. This paper gives an overview of regional population trends in the Netherlands up to 2040, showing that at the regional level, population growth and decline ca…
Measuring age differentials in representations of rurality in The Netherlands
Rural youth culture: Keten in the Netherlands
Out of love for the village? How general and selective forms of attachment to the village explain volunteering in Dutch community life
Beyond the local-newcomer divide: Village attachment in the era of mobilities
The influence of symbolic and emotional meanings of rural facilities on reactions to closure: The case of the village supermarket
In depopulating rural areas, one of the main issues is how to deal with the decline of local facilities such as schools, post-offices and shops. It is often feared that closure of a local facility will negatively affect the accessibility of that service and the liveability of the village. This paper examines how villagers experience the loss of a small local supermarket. Building on the concept of sense of place, we examine how people's attitude …
Social innovation and community-focussed civic initiatives in the context of rural depopulation: For everybody by everybody? Project Ulrum 2034
How people move to rural areas: Insights in the residential search process from a diary approach
Different Areas, Different People? Migration to Popular and Less‐Popular Rural Areas in the Netherlands
Counterurbanisation is often conceptualised as urban, middle‐class movers attracted by an idyllic rural setting. However, knowing that rural areas differ in their popularity for living, we argue that more attention is required to the diversity of rural in‐migration within countries. We do so by comparing the characteristics, motivations, and values of movers to popular and less‐popular areas in the northern Netherlands using multivariate analysis…
A tale of three villages: Local housing policies, well‐being and encounters between residents and immigrants
This article examines how the location, function and quality of immigrant accommodation facilities, regulated by local housing policies, shape the perceived effects of immigration on the well‐being of residents and immigrants in three villages in the Netherlands. Drawing on semistructured interviews with local government representatives, residents and Romanian and Polish immigrants, we show how the different locations of the immigrant accommodati…
Non-engagement of Mid-aged and Elderly Residents in Rural Civic Livability Initiatives
In the context of public budget cuts and rural areas facing depopulation and aging, local governments increasingly encourage citizen engagement in addressing local livability issues. This paper examines the non-engagement of mid-aged and elderly residents (45+ years old) in civic initiatives that intend to improve the livability of their community. We focus on residents of depopulating rural areas in the North Netherlands. We compare their engage…
The Effect of Primary School Absence and Closure on Inward and Outward Flows of Families
Due to ageing and depopulation, the continued existence of many primary schools in villages in rural North‐Netherlands is threatened. It is believed that villages without a primary school will no longer be attractive to families with children, which could strengthen the process of population decline. This research examines to what extent the absence and closure of a primary school in a village influence the inward and outward flows of families wi…
Rural Areas in the Netherlands
According to the OECD standard, there are no rural areas in the Netherlands. Nonetheless, debate continues about the future of the Dutch countryside. In order to explore how Dutch inhabitants think about rural areas a survey was conducted by the authors, focusing on two topics: the kind of associations respondents to the survey have with respect to rural areas; and where they think rural areas are located in the Netherlands. The analysis shows th…
The role of non‐resident family ties in rural staying
Internal migration research is paying increasing attention to the role in migration behaviour of having non‐resident family—family living outside of the household—living close by, and also to non‐migration and staying in general. Combining these two themes, this paper investigates the role of non‐resident family ties in rural staying for adults aged 31–64. Using a mixed methods analysis of survey and interview data from the Netherlands, Germany a…
Dealing with the loss of the village supermarket: The perceived effects two years after closure
In 2015, the local supermarket of the depopulating village of Ulrum closed its doors. After a first survey around the closure, a second survey was conducted two years later, to investigate changes in the different meanings of the local supermarket and the perceived effects of its closure over time. The results show that respondents state that the liveability and status of the village have decreased because of the loss of the supermarket. This str…
Measuring age differentials in representations of rurality in The Netherlands
Rural Areas in the Netherlands
According to the OECD standard, there are no rural areas in the Netherlands. Nonetheless, debate continues about the future of the Dutch countryside. In order to explore how Dutch inhabitants think about rural areas a survey was conducted by the authors, focusing on two topics: the kind of associations respondents to the survey have with respect to rural areas; and where they think rural areas are located in the Netherlands. The analysis shows th…
Nature in the Netherlands
Rural youth culture: Keten in the Netherlands
Migration intentions of rural youth in the Westhoek, Flanders, Belgium and the Veenkoloniën, The Netherlands
Planning for Decline: Anticipating on Population Decline in the Netherlands
Some regions in The Netherlands have been experiencing population decline in the last decade(s). Although decline figures are much lower than in more traditional areas of decline in Europe, Dutch planners and policy‐makers feel the need to develop several strategies of planning for decline. This paper gives an overview of regional population trends in the Netherlands up to 2040, showing that at the regional level, population growth and decline ca…
More than Counter‐urbanisation: Migration to Popular and Less‐popular Rural Areas in the Netherlands
Migration into rural areas in Western countries is often explained by the pull of the rural idyll for urban, middle‐class migrants. Although previous research has shown that this counter‐urbanisation model is insufficient to explain rural immigration in sparsely populated countries, this paper shows that also within core regions, more diverse conceptualisations of migration into rural areas are required. This is achieved by distinguishing popular…
Different Areas, Different People? Migration to Popular and Less‐Popular Rural Areas in the Netherlands
Counterurbanisation is often conceptualised as urban, middle‐class movers attracted by an idyllic rural setting. However, knowing that rural areas differ in their popularity for living, we argue that more attention is required to the diversity of rural in‐migration within countries. We do so by comparing the characteristics, motivations, and values of movers to popular and less‐popular areas in the northern Netherlands using multivariate analysis…
Migration to less-popular rural areas in the Netherlands: Exploring the motivations
Causes and Consequences of Regional Population Decline for Primary Schools
During the past few years, the Dutch education system has been confronted with a sharp decline in the number of pupils. Especially in rural villages, inhabitants fear for the closure of their local primary school, which is perceived as a very negative development for local village life. This paper shows that the relatively sharp decline of the number of pupils in the next decade can be explained by a wavelike pattern in the past and projected num…
Explaining Emotional Attachment to a Protected Area by Visitors' Perceived Importance of Seeing Wildlife, Behavioral Connections with Nature, and Sociodemographics
Interest in understanding emotional bonds with protected areas has been growing. However, attention has hardly been focused on the role of wildlife in emotional bonding. Our research first explored the relationship between the perceived importance of seeing wildlife and emotional attachment to a protected area, the Dutch Wadden Sea Area. Second, we investigated to what extent this relationship was driven by behavioral connections with nature, and…
The success–failure dichotomy revisited: Young adults' motives to return to their rural home region
Researchers are increasingly aware that nonlinear perspectives of the transition into adulthood and non-economic motives, such as family and friends, may help to improve our understanding of young adults' migration decisions. This paper combines these new insights with the traditional economic success–failure arguments in order to explain young adults' return migration to their rural home region. We present four orientations in return motives: th…
How people move to rural areas: Insights in the residential search process from a diary approach
The Effect of Primary School Absence and Closure on Inward and Outward Flows of Families
Due to ageing and depopulation, the continued existence of many primary schools in villages in rural North‐Netherlands is threatened. It is believed that villages without a primary school will no longer be attractive to families with children, which could strengthen the process of population decline. This research examines to what extent the absence and closure of a primary school in a village influence the inward and outward flows of families wi…
Identifying social innovations in European local rural development initiatives
Social innovation is attracting increasing attention in research and policy, heightened by continuing austerity across Europe. Therefore, this paper examines earlier research into community-led local development (CLLD) initiatives in rural areas of Europe to develop our understanding of the meaning and scope of rural social innovation. We draw on a Schumpeterian view where innovations emerge from new combinations of resources that bring about pos…
S/elective belonging: How rural newcomer families with children become stayers
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…
Understanding the success of rural citizens’ initiatives: Perspectives of founders
Three perspectives on conceptualizing success were found, marking a difference between professionals and founders. • Goal achievement is the most important factor influencing the founders' self-evaluated level of success. • Goal achievement is the most important factor influencing success, but not part of the definition of successful initiatives. • The discrepancy concerning goal achievement may lead to misaligned expectations between founders an…
Beyond the local-newcomer divide: Village attachment in the era of mobilities
The influence of village attractiveness on flows of movers in a declining rural region
The influence of symbolic and emotional meanings of rural facilities on reactions to closure: The case of the village supermarket
In depopulating rural areas, one of the main issues is how to deal with the decline of local facilities such as schools, post-offices and shops. It is often feared that closure of a local facility will negatively affect the accessibility of that service and the liveability of the village. This paper examines how villagers experience the loss of a small local supermarket. Building on the concept of sense of place, we examine how people's attitude …
The challenge of proximity: The (Un)attractiveness of Near-Home Tourism Destinations
Imaginaries of touristic otherness have traditionally been closely related to geographical distance and travel far away from the everyday. But in today's context of sustainable tourism, a moral and behavioral shift may be expected, toward traveling near home. Distance may actually become a disadvantage and proximity a new commodity. This implies a need to disentangle subjective understandings of both distance and proximity in relation to perceive…
Liveable Villages: The Relationship between Volunteering and Liveability in the Perceptions of Rural Residents
In the Dutch policy discourse it is increasingly thought that active citizenship will positively affect satisfaction with the living environment. This article challenges this assumption by examining whether and how volunteering in village life and individual perceptions of liveability are interrelated. Through a series of hierarchical regressions, we found that having the opportunity to volunteer in village life is not a significant predictor of …
Staying in a state of flux: A life course perspective on the diverse staying processes of rural young adults
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…
Out of love for the village? How general and selective forms of attachment to the village explain volunteering in Dutch community life
Defining 'Success' of Local Citizens' Initiatives in Maintaining Public Services in Rural Areas: A Professional's Perspective
In the shift towards the Big Society, it is widely proclaimed that citizen participation and citizens' initiatives are indispensable to maintaining services that used to be run by local or regional governments. Despite the increased interest in citizens' initiatives, research has scarcely debated what actually defines the success of such initiatives. Using focus group discussions, this study examined the meanings and norms collectively constructe…
Sociology (44 works) · Political science (42 works) · Rural development and sustainability (40 works) · Geography (32 works) · Psychology (32 works) · Economics (29 works) · Rural area (23 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (21 works) · Economic growth (20 works) · Socioeconomics (20 works)