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Gentrification and linked migration in the rural USA

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ID11949331
AuthorsL Nelson (0000-0003-2848-6551, corresponding author), Peter B Nelson (0000-0002-1491-1927, Middlebury College)
Year2010
Volume35
Issue4
Pages441-459
Publication date2010-10-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProgress in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0309132510380487
OpenAlexW2104409309
LanguageEN
Citations received71
References cited74

This article explores the possibility that US rural amenity destinations are affected by ‘linked migration’ streams similar to ones connecting the fate of high-wage professionals and low-wage immigrants in global cities. To date, the possibility of such a linkage has not been considered in the vast literature on migration and social transformation in rural America, a literature that has treated the arrival of these two groups (high-wage professionals and low-wage immigrants) in rural spaces as separate processes. We explore the possibility that these two groups, in a particular set of US rural amenity communities, are structurally linked. We focus on the theoretical implications of documenting such linkages, arguing that the presence of linked migration dynamics in rural areas would transform scholarly debates on: (1) Latino immigrants in the rural USA; (2) amenity migration and rural gentrification, not only in the USA but in a range of postindustrial economies; and (3) theories of globalization and mobility, as well as the place of the rural in globalization dynamics

Amenity · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Gentrification · Geography · Globalization · Immigration · Labour economics · Market economy · Political science · Post-industrial society · Rural area · Rural tourism · Tourism · Tourism geography · Wage · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Rural development and sustainability · Urbanization and City Planning

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