The Rural-Migration Nexus Global Problems, Rural Issues

Nathan Kerrigan is Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University, UK. Nathan's research interests and publications centre around themes of community, space, and place. He is especially interested in the way these different thematic areas impact and influence constructions of rurality as well the tensions and conflicts they produce in rural areas.

Philomena de Lima is a professor of Applied Sociology and Rural Studies at UHI Inverness, UK and was the Director for Centre for Remote and Rural Studies until 2019. She is the co- editor for ‘Rethinking Rural’ Palgrave -MacMillan book series and has recently been appointed as a member of the Scottish Government’s Migration and Population Expert Advisory Group.