Women and Migration in Rural Europe: Labour Markets, Representations and Policies

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction: Women and Migration in Rural Europe — Explanations and Implications....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 24-24
Women Assess Rurality — A Tailored Rural Idyll....Pages 25-43
References to a Rural Idyll in the Attitudes and Self-Perceptions of Women in Rural West Germany....Pages 44-63
Rural Milieus in East-Central Europe — Gendered Attitudes to Post-modern Values....Pages 64-85
Determinants of Individual Quality of Life Ratings in Rural Versus Suburban Regions — A Gender Perspective....Pages 86-106
Front Matter....Pages 108-108
Gendered Rural Labour Markets and Intent to Migrate — A Case Study in Northwestern Germany....Pages 109-130
Women in Creative Jobs and Living in Rural Areas — A Contradiction?....Pages 131-149
The Hidden Potential of Female Entrepreneurship in Rural Poland....Pages 150-169
Business Clusters and Social Cooperatives — A Chance to Promote Female Entrepreneurship in Rural Poland?....Pages 170-186
Front Matter....Pages 188-188
Exploring Female Over-Migration in Rural Spain — Employment, Care Giving and Mobility....Pages 189-208
Decentralised Higher Education Infrastructure in Rural Areas to Impede the Outmigration of Highly Qualified Young Women....Pages 209-229
Gender Equality in the Regional Development Discourse — Only Rhetoric Modernisation? Austrian Experiences....Pages 230-250
Back Matter....Pages 251-257