Stefan Kordel
Biographic Data
| ID | 327906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Kordel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kordel |
| SIGNATURE | KORDEL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0903-3779 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Acquiring health resources during settlement in rural areas? Refugees' experiences of health infrastructure and leisure practices in Germany
Addressing the research desideratum of health status and practices of refugees in the settlement phase as well as rural specificities in dealing with health issues, this article explores refugees' self-reported health status as well as experiences with health infrastructure. Following a salutogenic approach to health, we consider both disease prevention and health promotion and explicitly take into account leisure practices as a way to acquire he…
Becoming Active Agents Through Practices of Volunteering: Immigrants’ Experiences in Rural Germany
Volunteering is an important way to include immigrants at a local scale, especially in small towns and municipalities with limited arrival infrastructure. With the recent increase in immigrants, including in rural areas, volunteering practices for this target group have been much discussed, albeit with an emphasis on immigrants as vulnerable beneficiaries. There are few studies that focus on immigrants’ volunteering practices, or their function f…
Assessing roles and strategies of public sector stakeholders in an evolving (lifestyle) migration industry: The case of the Dutch Emigration Expo
This study focuses on local and regional governments using place branding strategies to attract intra-EU inward migration for demographic and/or economic purposes. This forms an important aspect of contemporary migration industries, whereby the interlinking of lifestyle, work and economic investment is pivotal. Taking the case of the Emigration Expo event in the Netherlands, it draws on interviews with the organizer and with public sector exhibit…
What Is a Batey? Origins and Trajectories of an Antillean Concept / ¿Qué es un batey? Orígenes y trayectorias de un concepto antillano
This article explores the meaning of the term “batey,” which can be broadly defined as a distinct type of settlement in the Dominican Republic, closely linked to sugar cane cultivation and transnational migration dynamics with Haiti. Drawing on historical documentation, we examine semantic changes in the term, from its pre-Columbian origins through the colonial period to the present. We also present contemporary emic perspectives on what constitu…
The rural housing crisis: Analytical dimensions and emblematic issues
While the urban housing crisis is pivotal to current debates in housing studies, the question of affordable as well as sustainable housing in rural settings has arisen only recently. However, recent developments, including increasing demand for housing as well as for a specific supply, indicate that there is a rural housing crisis. Connecting the scattered strands of literature on rural housing, we propose an understanding of the rural housing cr…
Geflüchtete in ländlichen Regionen Deutschlands
Dieses open access-Buch thematisiert die Flüchtlingsentwicklung in Kleinstädten und Dörfern in ländlichen Räumen Deutschlands.
Mapping Places of Encounter: An Integrative Methodological Approach to Understanding Social Inclusion
Physical places of encounter are nodes of social interaction in which moments of social inclusion and exclusion crystallize. On a methodological level, meeting places have in the past usually been associated either with firmly established spatial arrangements or with situational opportunities of encounter. Acknowledging the complexity of places of encounter and developing further a spatio-visual mapping tool conducted in various research projects…
Is Social Contact With the Resident Population a Prerequisite of Well-Being and Place Attachment? The Case of Refugees in Rural Regions of Germany
Due to dispersal policies applied in many European countries, such as Germany, rural regions are important arrival regions for asylum seekers and refugees. For German policy makers, who have faced a large number of immigrants since 2015, it is crucial that asylum seekers and refugees stay in those rural regions and benefit the development of those areas. This paper addresses the quality and quantity of social contact between refugees and resident…
Access to and exclusion from housing over time: Refugees' experiences in rural areas
Taking the example of recognized refugees in rural Germany, and following the housing pathways approach, the paper addresses the complex interplay of individual and family‐related residential preferences over time as well as structural factors regarding access to housing and associated settlement and integration. Results are from a long‐term empirical study that encompassed both refugees’ and local actors’ views. Mechanisms and practices of exclu…
Unravelling the Meaning of Place and Spatial Mobility: Analysing the Everyday Life-worlds of Refugees in Host Societies by Means of Mobility Mapping
This article develops mobility mapping as a valuable space-related instrument to tackle the lack of attention to the meanings of places and everyday spatial mobility in the process of refugee settlement. Referring to two consecutive case studies carried out with asylum seekers and recognized refugees in rural Germany, we discuss the surplus of this tool considering both peculiarities in implementation and the opportunities of analysis of responde…
International lifestyle migrant entrepreneurs in two New Immigration Destinations: Understanding their evolving mix of embeddedness
International Lifestyle Migration in the Andes of Ecuador: How Migrants from the USA Perform Privilege, Import Rurality and Evaluate Their Impact on Local Community
Using the example of Vilcabamba in Ecuador, this article explores the ways that migrants from the USA materialise their quest for better lives by relocating to small communities in the Global South. Taking a lifestyle migration approach, we explore the ways migrants interpret and perform rurality in their post-migration lives according to their economic and symbolically privileged status. Empirical data gathered from biographical narrative interv…
Selling ruralities: How tourist entrepreneurs commodify traditional and alternative ways of conceiving the countryside
Since undergoing transformations associated with substantial economic and social restructuring, rural areas are addressed as spaces of consumption. The commodification of environmental amenities and cultural meanings has resulted in rural tourism structures. This article explores how tourist entrepreneurs commodify different meanings of rurality in the low mountain range area of the Bavarian Forest, Germany. Tourists’ demands for a rurality shape…
The production of spaces of the ‘good life’ – the case of lifestyle migrants in Spain
In search for the 'good life', the current generation of European retirees is striving to materialise a self-determined way of life by moving to locations that provide a higher quality of life, such as the Mediterranean coast. Migrants' leisure practises and distinct spatial features, e.g. leisure infrastructures, hereby frame a production of desirable spaces
Access to and exclusion from housing over time: Refugees' experiences in rural areas
Taking the example of recognized refugees in rural Germany, and following the housing pathways approach, the paper addresses the complex interplay of individual and family‐related residential preferences over time as well as structural factors regarding access to housing and associated settlement and integration. Results are from a long‐term empirical study that encompassed both refugees’ and local actors’ views. Mechanisms and practices of exclu…
Is Social Contact With the Resident Population a Prerequisite of Well-Being and Place Attachment? The Case of Refugees in Rural Regions of Germany
Due to dispersal policies applied in many European countries, such as Germany, rural regions are important arrival regions for asylum seekers and refugees. For German policy makers, who have faced a large number of immigrants since 2015, it is crucial that asylum seekers and refugees stay in those rural regions and benefit the development of those areas. This paper addresses the quality and quantity of social contact between refugees and resident…
International Lifestyle Migration in the Andes of Ecuador: How Migrants from the USA Perform Privilege, Import Rurality and Evaluate Their Impact on Local Community
Using the example of Vilcabamba in Ecuador, this article explores the ways that migrants from the USA materialise their quest for better lives by relocating to small communities in the Global South. Taking a lifestyle migration approach, we explore the ways migrants interpret and perform rurality in their post-migration lives according to their economic and symbolically privileged status. Empirical data gathered from biographical narrative interv…
International lifestyle migrant entrepreneurs in two New Immigration Destinations: Understanding their evolving mix of embeddedness
The production of spaces of the ‘good life’ – the case of lifestyle migrants in Spain
In search for the 'good life', the current generation of European retirees is striving to materialise a self-determined way of life by moving to locations that provide a higher quality of life, such as the Mediterranean coast. Migrants' leisure practises and distinct spatial features, e.g. leisure infrastructures, hereby frame a production of desirable spaces
Mapping Places of Encounter: An Integrative Methodological Approach to Understanding Social Inclusion
Physical places of encounter are nodes of social interaction in which moments of social inclusion and exclusion crystallize. On a methodological level, meeting places have in the past usually been associated either with firmly established spatial arrangements or with situational opportunities of encounter. Acknowledging the complexity of places of encounter and developing further a spatio-visual mapping tool conducted in various research projects…
Unravelling the Meaning of Place and Spatial Mobility: Analysing the Everyday Life-worlds of Refugees in Host Societies by Means of Mobility Mapping
This article develops mobility mapping as a valuable space-related instrument to tackle the lack of attention to the meanings of places and everyday spatial mobility in the process of refugee settlement. Referring to two consecutive case studies carried out with asylum seekers and recognized refugees in rural Germany, we discuss the surplus of this tool considering both peculiarities in implementation and the opportunities of analysis of responde…
Selling ruralities: How tourist entrepreneurs commodify traditional and alternative ways of conceiving the countryside
Since undergoing transformations associated with substantial economic and social restructuring, rural areas are addressed as spaces of consumption. The commodification of environmental amenities and cultural meanings has resulted in rural tourism structures. This article explores how tourist entrepreneurs commodify different meanings of rurality in the low mountain range area of the Bavarian Forest, Germany. Tourists’ demands for a rurality shape…
What Is a Batey? Origins and Trajectories of an Antillean Concept / ¿Qué es un batey? Orígenes y trayectorias de un concepto antillano
This article explores the meaning of the term “batey,” which can be broadly defined as a distinct type of settlement in the Dominican Republic, closely linked to sugar cane cultivation and transnational migration dynamics with Haiti. Drawing on historical documentation, we examine semantic changes in the term, from its pre-Columbian origins through the colonial period to the present. We also present contemporary emic perspectives on what constitu…
The rural housing crisis: Analytical dimensions and emblematic issues
While the urban housing crisis is pivotal to current debates in housing studies, the question of affordable as well as sustainable housing in rural settings has arisen only recently. However, recent developments, including increasing demand for housing as well as for a specific supply, indicate that there is a rural housing crisis. Connecting the scattered strands of literature on rural housing, we propose an understanding of the rural housing cr…
Becoming Active Agents Through Practices of Volunteering: Immigrants’ Experiences in Rural Germany
Volunteering is an important way to include immigrants at a local scale, especially in small towns and municipalities with limited arrival infrastructure. With the recent increase in immigrants, including in rural areas, volunteering practices for this target group have been much discussed, albeit with an emphasis on immigrants as vulnerable beneficiaries. There are few studies that focus on immigrants’ volunteering practices, or their function f…
Selling ruralities: How tourist entrepreneurs commodify traditional and alternative ways of conceiving the countryside
Since undergoing transformations associated with substantial economic and social restructuring, rural areas are addressed as spaces of consumption. The commodification of environmental amenities and cultural meanings has resulted in rural tourism structures. This article explores how tourist entrepreneurs commodify different meanings of rurality in the low mountain range area of the Bavarian Forest, Germany. Tourists’ demands for a rurality shape…
The production of spaces of the ‘good life’ – the case of lifestyle migrants in Spain
In search for the 'good life', the current generation of European retirees is striving to materialise a self-determined way of life by moving to locations that provide a higher quality of life, such as the Mediterranean coast. Migrants' leisure practises and distinct spatial features, e.g. leisure infrastructures, hereby frame a production of desirable spaces
International lifestyle migrant entrepreneurs in two New Immigration Destinations: Understanding their evolving mix of embeddedness
International Lifestyle Migration in the Andes of Ecuador: How Migrants from the USA Perform Privilege, Import Rurality and Evaluate Their Impact on Local Community
Using the example of Vilcabamba in Ecuador, this article explores the ways that migrants from the USA materialise their quest for better lives by relocating to small communities in the Global South. Taking a lifestyle migration approach, we explore the ways migrants interpret and perform rurality in their post-migration lives according to their economic and symbolically privileged status. Empirical data gathered from biographical narrative interv…
Unravelling the Meaning of Place and Spatial Mobility: Analysing the Everyday Life-worlds of Refugees in Host Societies by Means of Mobility Mapping
This article develops mobility mapping as a valuable space-related instrument to tackle the lack of attention to the meanings of places and everyday spatial mobility in the process of refugee settlement. Referring to two consecutive case studies carried out with asylum seekers and recognized refugees in rural Germany, we discuss the surplus of this tool considering both peculiarities in implementation and the opportunities of analysis of responde…
Is Social Contact With the Resident Population a Prerequisite of Well-Being and Place Attachment? The Case of Refugees in Rural Regions of Germany
Due to dispersal policies applied in many European countries, such as Germany, rural regions are important arrival regions for asylum seekers and refugees. For German policy makers, who have faced a large number of immigrants since 2015, it is crucial that asylum seekers and refugees stay in those rural regions and benefit the development of those areas. This paper addresses the quality and quantity of social contact between refugees and resident…
Access to and exclusion from housing over time: Refugees' experiences in rural areas
Taking the example of recognized refugees in rural Germany, and following the housing pathways approach, the paper addresses the complex interplay of individual and family‐related residential preferences over time as well as structural factors regarding access to housing and associated settlement and integration. Results are from a long‐term empirical study that encompassed both refugees’ and local actors’ views. Mechanisms and practices of exclu…
Geflüchtete in ländlichen Regionen Deutschlands
Dieses open access-Buch thematisiert die Flüchtlingsentwicklung in Kleinstädten und Dörfern in ländlichen Räumen Deutschlands.
Mapping Places of Encounter: An Integrative Methodological Approach to Understanding Social Inclusion
Physical places of encounter are nodes of social interaction in which moments of social inclusion and exclusion crystallize. On a methodological level, meeting places have in the past usually been associated either with firmly established spatial arrangements or with situational opportunities of encounter. Acknowledging the complexity of places of encounter and developing further a spatio-visual mapping tool conducted in various research projects…
Becoming Active Agents Through Practices of Volunteering: Immigrants’ Experiences in Rural Germany
Volunteering is an important way to include immigrants at a local scale, especially in small towns and municipalities with limited arrival infrastructure. With the recent increase in immigrants, including in rural areas, volunteering practices for this target group have been much discussed, albeit with an emphasis on immigrants as vulnerable beneficiaries. There are few studies that focus on immigrants’ volunteering practices, or their function f…
Assessing roles and strategies of public sector stakeholders in an evolving (lifestyle) migration industry: The case of the Dutch Emigration Expo
This study focuses on local and regional governments using place branding strategies to attract intra-EU inward migration for demographic and/or economic purposes. This forms an important aspect of contemporary migration industries, whereby the interlinking of lifestyle, work and economic investment is pivotal. Taking the case of the Emigration Expo event in the Netherlands, it draws on interviews with the organizer and with public sector exhibit…
What Is a Batey? Origins and Trajectories of an Antillean Concept / ¿Qué es un batey? Orígenes y trayectorias de un concepto antillano
This article explores the meaning of the term “batey,” which can be broadly defined as a distinct type of settlement in the Dominican Republic, closely linked to sugar cane cultivation and transnational migration dynamics with Haiti. Drawing on historical documentation, we examine semantic changes in the term, from its pre-Columbian origins through the colonial period to the present. We also present contemporary emic perspectives on what constitu…
The rural housing crisis: Analytical dimensions and emblematic issues
While the urban housing crisis is pivotal to current debates in housing studies, the question of affordable as well as sustainable housing in rural settings has arisen only recently. However, recent developments, including increasing demand for housing as well as for a specific supply, indicate that there is a rural housing crisis. Connecting the scattered strands of literature on rural housing, we propose an understanding of the rural housing cr…
Acquiring health resources during settlement in rural areas? Refugees' experiences of health infrastructure and leisure practices in Germany
Addressing the research desideratum of health status and practices of refugees in the settlement phase as well as rural specificities in dealing with health issues, this article explores refugees' self-reported health status as well as experiences with health infrastructure. Following a salutogenic approach to health, we consider both disease prevention and health promotion and explicitly take into account leisure practices as a way to acquire he…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Rural area (5 works) · Rural development and sustainability (5 works) · Business (4 works)