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‘You'd never starve here’: return migration to rural Newfoundland

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In this article, the relationship between migration and underdevelopment in the rural areas is examined using data from a 1979 survey of 420 returning migrants and from a more detailed survey of 66 individuals in two communities undertaken in 1981-1982.
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Return migration to Newfoundland Canada is analyzed using data from a 1979 survey of 420 returning migrants and from a more detailed survey of 66 individuals in two communities undertaken in 1981-1982. The relationship between migration and underdevelopment in the rural areas is examined. (summary in FRE) (ANNOTATION)

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Bonding and bridging social capital: reflections from belfast

Madeleine Leonard
- 01 Dec 2004 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors question whether the concept of social capital has anything original to offer for understanding why some communities have weaker networks compared to others, and question whether social capital can be used to understand why certain communities have worse networks than others.
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Social Capital, Community Resilience, and Faith-based Organizations in Disaster Recovery

TL;DR: Miller et al. as discussed by the authors examined how the Mary Queen of Vietnam (MQVN) garnered social capital within its surrounding community to pursue successful community development in the absence of governmental support, and to a certain extent in the presence of political resistance.
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Social Capital, Community Resilience, and Faith-Based Organizations in Disaster Recovery: A Case Study of Mary Queen of Vietnam Catholic Church

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how the Mary Queen of Vietnam (MQVN) garnered social capital within its surrounding community to pursue successful community development in the absence of and opposition to governmental support and political resistance.
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“Between Belonging”: Habitus and the migration experience

TL;DR: This article explored the meanings and impacts of migration for two island communities that come together in space and time, and they are similarly confronted with the difficulties of both grasping and conveying the multilayered meanings of new forms of social relations in the context of different cultural understandings.
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Intra-European return migration and rural development: lessons from the Spanish case

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined return migration from industrial Europe to a number of communities in Andalusia Spain, covering migrants from a variety of social contexts including villages towns and cities.
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Who Returns and Why: Return Migration Behavior in Two North Atlantic Societies

TL;DR: In this paper, the characteristics of return migrants and their reasons for returning to their homelands were examined and a strong similarity between the two migrant populations was found, and the conceptual framework in the second part is a decision model in which a range of factors in the decision to return are examined.