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Rural Return Migration: Comparative Analysis between Ireland and Lithuania

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Farrell M., Kairytė E., Nienaber B., McDonagh J., Mahon M.

Central and Eastern European Migration Review

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2014

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vol. 3

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issue 2

127-149

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Globalisation is a ubiquitous influence in rural Europe, offering both opportunities and challenges. The liberalisation of travel restrictions, in addition to the growth and development of transport and global communication networks, have contributed to an international mobility that promotes patterns of migration, return migration and repeat emigration from and to rural regions. Return migration in particular represents a stimulating field of research, as thought-provoking as it is diverse. In some regions, migrants return to their native country to play a pivotal role in the economic, social, and cultural vibrancy of a local rural community, while in others, migrants find themselves excluded and isolated. Investigating this diversity of experience, this paper presents analysis of findings from research carried out as part of the FP7 DERREG1 project. Thirty-six biographies of return migrants (from the west of Ireland and Alytus County, Lithuania) were generated, allowing an understanding of how various life trajectories develop, reasons behind decisions, feelings regarding relocation and reintegration, and the experience of returning to a rural location. Drawing on transnationalism and social network theory, this paper reveals the complexity of contemporary return migration experiences and the similarities and diversities that exist between Western and Eastern Europe. Key issues to emerge include the context dependency of return migrant behaviour and their further life choices, integration, and the shift in migrants’ value priority scale from economic to social values.

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Saving Behaviour And Determinants Of Saving Mobilization By Rural Financial Co-Operators In Tigrai Region, Ethiopia

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Kifle Tesfamariam S.

Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development

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2012

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issue 4(26)

129-146

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This paper identified and examined saving behaviour and determinants of saving mobiliza-tion by the rural co-operators in Southern Tigrai Ethiopia. The input for the study was ob-tained from randomly selected 120 rural household savers from six purposively selected ru-ral savings and credit cooperatives. The result of the study using least squares method showed that savings mobilized is determined by household annual income, amount of loan borrowed and year of member stay in the cooperative. These factors therefore have to be considered in designing strategies aimed at improving the saving mobilization of coopera-tive members in the study area. Besides, economically feasible cooperative societies in the region should be encouraged among the rural households by supporting them with revolv-ing funds as they are more effective and efficient in mobilizing rural savings and provide collateral plus guarantor-based loans with low default rate. This will enable them to boost up their production output and increase their savings thereby stimulating the rural economy.

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THE CONCEPT OF ‘RURAL’ AS A PSYCHOSOCIAL PROCESS: FROM CONCEPT ATTAINMENT TO CONCEPT UNLEARNING

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Dymitrow M.

Quaestiones Geographicae

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2019

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vol. 38

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issue 4

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Realising that human geography has been defined less by its canonical works but rather by its canonical concepts, the current status of the concept ‘rural’ puts a question mark over progress in human geography in terms of how well we have been able to adapt knowledge to reciprocate with societal change at large. As one of the oldest geographical concepts still in widespread use, ‘rural’ stands in stark contrast to the immense changes encountered by the society during the last century, let alone decades. And while this problem has been approached both empirically and philosophically, not enough stress has been put on the cognitive and sociological processes that have governed the attainment and retention of ‘rural’ in science, and beyond. In this vein, the aim of this paper is to provide a structured argument for facilitating a view of ‘rural’ less as a geographical space and more as a concept purportedly thought to define such space by way of inculcation.

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The Meanings and Experiences of Domestic Labour among Rural Women in Croatia

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Šikić-Mićanović L.

Eastern European Countryside

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2011

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vol. 17

87-106

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Worldwide research has shown that women tend to devote a disproportionate amount of time to domestic labour that can be a barrier to gender equality and women's empowerment. The aim of this study is to investigate the extent to which women's role in unpaid domestic labour has an effect on their well-being and whether this presents a barrier to their empowerment or their ability ‘to do and be’ what they value. The study is based on ethnographic research in six rural villages located at the very north-eastern part of Croatia in Slavonia. This article draws on rural women's (and men's) accounts of their meanings and experiences in unpaid domestic labour. Pertaining to this labour, it also reviews their contribution as well as their lack of access to well-being in the family and wider community. Findings show that women's engagement in domestic labour has both positive and negative effects on their well-being, as well as that of their families and the wider community.

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Polish Rural Dialect and Culture of the Dobrzyń Region in Jerzy Pietrkiewicz’s Novel The Knotted Cord

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Cieplińska K.

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2022

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vol. Special Issue

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issue 18

37-43

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During the first decades of the XX century the myth of idyllic pre-war countryside was strong in Poland and such reminiscences of the abandoned homeland were especially important for Polish exiles after The World War II. One of them was Jerzy Pietrkiewicz who described the Dobrzyn Land in his novel in English The Knotted Cord, published in Great Britain in 1953. A particularly interesting aspect of the book is the way the author incorporated the elements of the Polish rural dialect and culture into the book addressed to the British recipient. The aim of the article is to analyse the author’s literary experiment based on the insertion of many Polish words into the English text. The main objective of the analysis is to view how Pietrkiewicz represented his homeland and identify the reasons why the book appeared to be successful.

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Manifestations de la mort dans deux recueils de nouvelles : « L’horizon bleu de la mort » de Marin Preda et « Geotenn ar Werhez » de Jakez Rioù

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Johnson D.

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia

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2014

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vol. 41

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issue 2

97-108

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This article offers a reading of two volumes of short stories, 'Geotenn ar Werhez' by Breton author Jakez Rioù (1899-1937) and 'L’horizon bleu de la mort' by the Romanian Marin Preda. Both works describe traditional agrarian societies, one in western the other in eastern Europe, in the early to mid-twentieth century. We examine here attitudes to death and manifestations of death in Rioù’s and Preda’s writing. The thrust of the article is to suggest that these works provide rare insights into rural life in Europe before the advent of mechanisation. This leads us to consider litterature in the Celtic languages, Breton in this instance, and Romanian, as a primary sources for evidence of aspects of European culture little documented in the metropolitan traditions of other languages. Rioù’s text is translated by Youenn Drezen, Preda’s by Micaela Slăvescu.

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The association between rurality and return to work for workers’ compensation claimants with work-related musculoskeletal injuries: An analysis of workers who failed to return to work within typical healing time frames

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Lavoie C. A., Voaklander D., Beach J. R., Gross D. P.

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health

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2017

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vol. 30

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issue 5

715-729

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Objectives The objectives of this study have been to: 1) describe and compare urban and rural injured worker populations in Alberta, Canada; 2) identify return-to-work outcomes in urban and rural populations; 3) examine the relationship between geographic location of residence and recovery from work-related musculoskeletal injury; and 4) investigate if this relationship is attenuated after controlling for other known risk factors. Material and Methods This study was a secondary analysis utilizing data of a population of musculoskeletal injury claimants who underwent clinical/RTW (return to work) assessment between December 2009 and January 2011 collected by the Workers’ Compensation Board of Alberta. Descriptive statistics were computed for 32 variables and used for comparing urban and rural workers. The logistic regression analysis was performed to test the association between geographic location of residence and likelihood of return-to-work. Results Data on 7843 claimants was included, 70.1% of them being urban and 29.9% – rural. Rural claimants tended to have spent less time in formal education, have a blue-collar job, have no modified work available, have a diagnosed comorbidity, and not been enrolled in a specialized rehabilitation program. They were 1.43 (1.12–1.84) times the odds more likely than urban claimants to be continuing to receive full disability benefits 90 days after their RTW assessment, and 1.68 (1.06–2.67) times the odds as likely to report a recurrence of receiving disability benefits. Conclusions Rural residence was associated with prolonged work disability, even after controlling for age, job type, education level, health utilization and other potential confounders. Further research is required to explore why injured workers in rural settings experience prolonged reception of disability benefits and have greater rates of recurrence of receiving disability benefits. Int J Occup Med Environ Health 2017;30(5):715–729

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An empirical approach about some important features of child labor in Turkey

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Acaroglu H.

Business and Economic Horizons

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2010

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vol. 3

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issue 3

135-146

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The study examines effects of some factors on the child labor force in Turkey such as the level of education of household heads determining the child labor, the features of geographical region where the household live and sex of working children. It is a motivation tool of opting for this subject in a developing country having a young population that there are few empirical studies concerning the fact of child labor. The empirical results obtained from non-conditional probability and probit analyses show that the employment rates of boys are higher than that of girls in both urban and rural regions. The education level of decision-makers of household in rural areas is lower than that of in urban regions and accordingly child labor employment rates in rural regions is higher than the same rates in urban regions. These facts mean that the lower the level of education of household heads is, the higher the child labor becomes. That is, when the education level of decision-makers decreases in rural areas, the child labor becomes more common.

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Heat Alert and Response Systems in Urban and Rural Communities in Canada

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Berry P., Yusa A., Morris-Oswald T., Rogaeva A.

Change and Adaptation in Socio-Ecological Systems

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2014

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vol. 1

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issue 1

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Health Canada reviewed national and international literature to develop a framework that identifies best practices for developing and implementing Heat Alert and Response Systems (HARS) to protect citizens from extreme heat events. A comparative case study was conducted based upon the framework and the experiences of two Canadian jurisdictions that piloted many of the best practices in the development of new HARS. Table-top exercises, heat-health vulnerability assessments, and community consultations were used to inform the development and implementation of HARS plans. Implementation of the framework by local authorities revealed different and unique challenges facing rural and urban communities in protecting people from extreme heat events. Opportunities within each pilot for taking effective public health adaptive actions that draw upon existing strengths and resources were also identified. Key aspects of HARS development including those related to education and engagement, development of an alert protocol, creation of a heat response plan, and identification of communication activities should be tailored to the needs of individual communities or regions and be informed by specific characteristics related to existing and future vulnerability.

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Euripa - past, present and the future

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Lopez-Abuin J., Randall-Smith J.

Puls Uczelni

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2014

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issue 3

22-25

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EURIPA (European Rural and Isolated Practitioners Association) is a regional rural health network, which was founded by family doctors to address the health and well-being needs of rural communities, on one hand, and the practitioners’ needs across Europe, on the other. EURIPA began its activity in 1995 with a small group of family doctors from across Europe, and in 1997 the structure was formalised into that of EURIPA today. EURIPA was initially recognized by WONCA Europe as a special inter- est group and subsequently as a representative network for rural family doctors across Europe. Now, it actively participates in WONCA Europe meetings and their annual conferences. The constitution was revised in 1997 when the International Advisory Board was created to support the work of EURIPA and its Executive Committee. EURIPA has worked hard to raise the profle of rural general practice, from its frst research project in 1997, to the series of Annual Rural Health Forums, which started in 2010. These forums have focussed on quality, education and research with the 5th Forum taking place in September 2014 focussing on policy engagement. EURIPA uses social media to engage its membership and publishes regular newsletters - “Grapevine”, as well as encourages rural GPs to publish in the European Section of the Journal of Rural and Remote Health.

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EURIPA (Europejskie Stowarzyszenie Lekarzy z Terenów Wiejskich i Izolowanych) jest stowarzyszeniem udzielającym pomocy lekarskiej na terenach wiejskich, które zostało założone przez lekarzy rodzinnych, aby wyjść naprzeciw potrzebom zdrowotnym ludzi mieszkających na tych terenach z jednej strony, i potrzebom lekarzy z calej Europy, z drugiej strony. EURIPA zapoczątkowała swoją działalność w 1995 roku licząc jedynie kilku lekarzy z całej Europy, po to aby w 1997 roku sformalizować swoją strukturę do tej, która istnieje dzisiaj. EURIPA została początkowo uznana przez WONCA Europe (World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians) jako grupa tematyczna, a następnie jako stowarzyszenie lekarzy wiejskich w Europie. Dzisiaj, stowarzyszenie aktywnie uczestniczy w spotkaniach i corocznych konferencjach WONCA Europe. W 1997 roku stowarzyszenie ustanowiło swoją konstytucję i powołało Międzynarodową Radę Doradczą, aby wspierać swoją działalność oraz Zarząd. EURIPA pracuje bardzo intensywnie, aby podnieść jakość wiejskiej opieki medycznej, począwszy od swojego pierwszego projektu w 1997 roku do po coroczne Forum Zdrowia Wiejskiego, które miało swój początek w 2010 roku. Fora te dotyczyły głównie jakości, edukacji i badań w medycynie rodzinnej. Ostatnie z nich, które odbyło się we wrześniu tego roku dotyczyło zaangażowania w politykę działalności stowarzyszenia. EURIPA wykorzystuje media społeczne, aby angażować swoich członków i publikuje biuletyn informacyjny zatytułowany – „Grapevine”. Stowarzyszenie zachęca również wiejskich lekarzy rodzinnych do publikowania swoich artykułów w europejskim dziale czasopisma „Journal of Rural and Remote Health”.

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Urban and Rural Narratives of Female Relocation in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Novels Queen of Dreams and The Mistress of Spices

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Alexandru M.-S. D.

American, British and Canadian Studies Journal

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2012

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vol. 19

77-86

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In today’s global world, the urban/ rural opposition is increasingly becoming a more relevant marker of the acculturation of foreigners whose adoption of national values is reflected by the spaces they inhabit. As they bring with them traditions related to the healing and balancing forces of the earth, immigrants prompt a reconsideration of the urban/ rural dichotomy in the metropolitan spaces they come to inhabit. Rural landscape in American culture has a long tradition of acting as a source of an alternative symbolic imaginary, responsible for boosting people’s feelings of patriotic commitment that are crucial to national integration. Diasporic American fiction has increasingly combined this tradition with symbolic magic and natural elements brought over from the “other” cultural backgrounds their authors come from. This paper aims to study the socio-political negotiations in a few instances of cultural translation within the urban/ rural dialectic in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novels The Mistress of Spices and Queen of Dreams. I will suggest that Divakaruni’s female protagonists work their initial experience of dislocation into a discourse of nature and the earth free from boundaries, based on a rejection of urban alienation and the discovery of the reconciliatory potential of America’s nature.

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Rural Return Migration: Comparative Analysis between Ireland and Lithuania

Saving Behaviour And Determinants Of Saving Mobilization By Rural Financial Co-Operators In Tigrai Region, Ethiopia

THE CONCEPT OF ‘RURAL’ AS A PSYCHOSOCIAL PROCESS: FROM CONCEPT ATTAINMENT TO CONCEPT UNLEARNING

The Meanings and Experiences of Domestic Labour among Rural Women in Croatia

Polish Rural Dialect and Culture of the Dobrzyń Region in Jerzy Pietrkiewicz’s Novel The Knotted Cord

Manifestations de la mort dans deux recueils de nouvelles : « L’horizon bleu de la mort » de Marin Preda et « Geotenn ar Werhez » de Jakez Rioù

The association between rurality and return to work for workers’ compensation claimants with work-related musculoskeletal injuries: An analysis of workers who failed to return to work within typical healing time frames

An empirical approach about some important features of child labor in Turkey

Heat Alert and Response Systems in Urban and Rural Communities in Canada

Euripa - past, present and the future

Urban and Rural Narratives of Female Relocation in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Novels Queen of Dreams and The Mistress of Spices