As co-convener of a special session on international migration to rural areas at the 27th European Society for Sociology Conference, I want to thank everyone that submitted abstracts.
The range of submissions highlights the breadth of research that is taking place in this field, from economic migrants to refugees and across all parts of the EU and North America. Moving forwards, the topics raise questions for the need to join up research between regions losing population and those gaining population. Furthermore, there appear to different approaches towards designing policies that support different categories of migrants and that address social and economic challenges differently.
We look forward to bringing these conversations together in Krakow and further details of our session can be viewed here