2009 Best Book, International Political Economy Group of the British International Studies
Association This ambitious volume chronicles and analyzes from a critical globalization …

The intensification of global mobility has introduced international migration to rural areas
and small towns with little or no significant recent history of immigration. Drawing on an …

This book presents a multifaceted perspective on regional development and corresponding
processes of adaptation and response, focusing on the concepts of polarization and …

International migration to rural areas has become an increasingly important process in
Europe, with the potential to act as a key driver of change in the localities concerned …

Globalization is widely accepted as being a defining process of our modern society. But to
what extent do individuals think, feel or act in a way that takes account of the whole world …

There is growing evidence of international immigration becoming increasingly influential in
peripheral areas in some Southern European countries. Particularly in small localities …

This book is about the intersections that constitute the bridging tissues between the
cosmopolitan vision and considerations of the media, mediation-mediatization and …

Australia is one of the world's great migration nations: in seven decades of post-war
immigration Australia has attracted immigrants from all over the globe so that only …

The global urbanization process requires solving the issues of rural and poverty, and
research on the coupling patterns and correlational effects of rurality and regional poverty …

At some point in the early 2000s, the world passed an historic threshold with more than half
the global population living in cities and towns for the first time. This new age of global …