TY - JOUR AU - Mattila, Markku AU - Raunio, Mika PY - 2020/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Migration and regional development in Nordic rural context – Lessons from international seminar in Seinäjoki JF - Migration-Muuttoliike JA - siirtmigr VL - 46 IS - 1 SE - Artikkelit DO - UR - https://siirtolaisuus-migration.journal.fi/article/view/95548 SP - 5 AB - <p>It is said that in globalizing world urbanization is a megatrend. In some parts of the<br>Western world, urbanization or population concentration is associated with a declining<br>birth rate. In Finland, for example, population growth is only dependent on immigration,<br>and part of the country threatens to desert, especially as the working-age population moves<br>to the largest population centers. How do the rural regions survive, while being squeezed between these lines of development?</p> ER -