Ricard Morén-Alegret - International Immigration, Integration and Sustainability in Small Towns and Villages: Socio-Territorial Challenges in Rural and Semi-Rural Europe

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This book is mainly based upon an international research project funded by the Spanish Government Ministry for Science and Innovation (ref. CSO2009-13909), with participation of Danile Joly, Warwick University; Lucinda Fonseca, Lisbon University; Graeme Hugo, Adelaide University; Charalambos Kasimis, Agricultural University of Athens; and directed by the main co-author Ricard Morn-Alegret. In addition, this book is also partly based on a research project funded in 2014 by the Poitou-Charentes Region (France) that was carried out by Ricard Morn with local support from Nak Miret and William Berthomire (MIGRINTER, Universit de Poitiers/CNRS). Moreover, some data and information provided in this book were also collected in 2013 during a three months research visit of Ricard Morn at the United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM), where he was hosted by Parvati Nair. On the other hand, in 2017 the RecerCaixa Program (an initiative of Obra Social la Caixa and the Association of Public Universities in Catalonia, ACUP) awarded the UAB research project titled HAMLETS. Immigration and Sustainable Development in Small Villages (20172020), directed by Ricard Morn. This book is not directly based on results from the ongoing HAMLETS research project, but sometimes this project is quoted as child of previous rural immigration projects directed by the main co-author.

Regarding fieldworks in the study areas and other specific tasks, together with the main co-author Ricard Morn-Alegret (who did fieldwork in the four countries along the last decade), there were the following contributions: in Portugal, Albert Mas did interviews (20112013); in Spain, Sandra Fatori, Albert Mas and Dawid Wladyka also did some interviews (20112013); and in England, Dawid Wladyka did some interviews too (in 2011). Besides that, David Owen (Warwick University) was helpful with British statistics and, on the other hand, in 2016, Virginie Baby-Collin (Aix-Marseille Universit) kindly invited Ricard Morn to an additional research visit to France that helped too. Additionally, Dawid Wladyka thanks Xchilth Romn and Brianna Bautista, Research Assistants at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, for their assistance in updating parts of the literature review.

Apart from all that, the research upon which this book is based was possible thanks to the facilities of the Department of Geography of the Autonomous University of Barcelona ( Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona , UAB) and to the administrative support from its directors Antoni Tulla, Antoni Dur and Carme Miralles. In addition, Dawid Wladyka is grateful to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the College of Liberal Arts and the Graduate College at the University of Texas Rio Grande for their continuous support, and especially for providing technical means and staff thanks to which was possible to develop maps that accompany this book.

Fundamentally, we are also very grateful to the interviewees for their time, to the local residents in Alentejo, Empord, Poitou-Charentes and Warwickshire for hosting us; to Danile Joly and Zig Layton-Henry for kindly provoking the writing up process of this book; to Nadia Young for the English language editing; to Ruth McAreavey and Stefan Kordel for triggering up the publication of papers that helped to write preliminary versions of some book sections; to Palgrave Macmillan editors for their patience and help along the years, particularly to Beth Farrow and Poppy Hull; and to the anonymous reviewers for their generous comments to a draft proposal of this book. In addition, Dawid Wladyka is very grateful to Kasia for her patience and support. On the other hand, Ricard Morn is very grateful to Roser C. for her general support, to Magda and Aina for her patience and joy, and, at last but not least, to William Shakespeare for his deep human touch, poetic truth and sense of humour.