Migrazioni internazionali e innovazione sociale rurale. Analisi dei progetti di accoglienza e di ripopolamento nelle aree rurali dell’Europa Meridionale: il caso di Camini (Italia) e Soria (Spagna)

Abstract

The present study intends to highlight the relationship between the settlement processes of the foreign population (in particular refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants) in rural areas and the development of rural social innovation processes. In recent decades, as an effect of the capitalist restructuring processes of the agri-food system and of the introduction of spatial dispersal policies, an increasing number of economic migrants and forced migrants (refugees and asylum seekers) settled in rural areas. The arrival of "unexpected groups to unexpected places” in the so-called New Immigrant Destinations has changed the composition of rural areas creating new social groupings that are often crucial for the survival of rural areas as populated areas struggling to remain resilient.