Migration from the city to the countryside in Hungary and Poland |
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Authors: | Herman Kok |
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Institution: | (1) Kolpron Consultants BV, Budapest, Hungary |
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Abstract: | After the changes of 1989, urban-to-rural migration in Poland and Hungary remained stable compared to rural-to-urban migration.
This was connected to a growing importance of suburbanisation around major Hungarian and Polish cities. Suburban areas around
these cities are attracting increasing numbers of migrants from the major cities. Pollution and higher crime rates, as well
as rising living costs and increasing uncertainties make many people to decide to leave the city for the surrounding countryside.
Not only upper middle-class people move to the suburbs, but also lower status people, for whom life in the big city became
too difficult. Long-distance migration from the cities to the rural areas is declining. Economic problems together with low
employment opportunities prevent people from making such a move. Though the overall level of urban-to-rural migration did
not change too much, this article shows the rapidly increasing importance of suburbanisation.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | migration post-socialist transformation suburbanisation Hungary Poland |
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