socio-economic differentiation and selective migration in rural and urban sweden
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Socio-economic differentiation and selective migration in rural and urban
Sweden
Department of Social and Economic Geography,
Umeå University, Sweden (2006)
Migration selectivity
• Who are the migrants? Where do they move?– Segregation– Gentrification
• Rural and urban contexts– Segregation– Gentrification– Attitudes
Background• 4 Studies
– The attraction of the rural (who are the migrants?)– Socio-economic segregation in Stockholm metropolitan
area– Rural gentrification– Rural or urban? Life values and attitudes toward living
environment and housing• Time
– (1970)1985-1994, 2002• Type of studies
– Aggregated area data– Micro level individual register data– Survey
• Variables– Socio-economic and demographic– Survey questions concerning attitudes toward living
environment and housing• Methods
– Descriptive statistics– Logistic regression models
Map of Sweden
Flows of migration
1987 Population
Cities: 2703848, Periurban countryside: 991813, Small towns: 725988, Remote countryside: 1749089 8000 migrants =
1993 Population
Cities: 3751736, Periurban countryside: 1556201, Small towns: 948024, Remote countryside: 2369492 8000 migrants =
City Small town City Small town
Periurban countryside
Remote countryside Periurban countryside Remote countryside
Who is the urban migrant?
• Young (19-25)• Single• University educated• High income
Who is the rural migrant
• Older - net migration had an ageing effect on rural areas
• Families with children• Married couples• Self employed• Comparing periurban to remote rural movers
– Periurban migrants more likely to have high income and education
– Remote migrants more likely to be self employed
Patterns of urban segregation
• An apparent north south division of the city
• High income in the north and low income in the south
• Reinforced during the study period 1970-94
• Signs of increasing polarization
Patterns of rural gentrification
• Areas fairly close to large cities• Areas connected with tourism• Raised more questions
– How many areas?– Segmented rural gentrification?– Women driving rural gentrification?
Attitudes: Rural or urban?
• Preliminary results show – Rural and urban people opposite
attitudes• If rural positive then urban negative
• Coupled with previous int. studies– Policy implications – economic
development vs. preservation
Synthesis
• Polarization - increasing?(segregation – gentrification)
– Between urban and rural areas– Within urban areas– Between urban and rural people– Rural areas?
• Migration• In-migrants and locals• Between rural areas
Rural and the nation:A new national anthem?• Words in the
suggested anthem– Cottage– Log house– Birch– Lake– Wonderful nature– ‘falu’red and
green– Nesting birds