The Best of Both Worlds – Lifestyle Migration from the City to the Village Cover Image

Най-доброто от двата свята – lifestyle миграцията от града към селото
The Best of Both Worlds – Lifestyle Migration from the City to the Village

Author(s): Violeta Periklieva
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Family and social welfare, Rural and urban sociology, Migration Studies, Globalization
Published by: Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей при БАН
Keywords: lifestyle migration; urban-rural migration; everyday experience; after migration; life between two cultures

Summary/Abstract: In the last some ten years, the tendencies in the internal migrations in Bulgaria have been reversed, as the number of migrants from the city to the village is higher than that in the opposite direction. The topic of the revival of the Bulgarian village is once again gaining a positive character in the public space. These processes precisely attract research interest and are the focus of this study. It considers migration from urban to rural areas as a form of lifestyle migration. The aim is to present the new lifestyle that rural migrants are striving for and their daily experience after migration, to determine the extent to which the act of migration puts an end to the search for a better way of life and the place of the city in the new lifestyle of migrants. To achieve this goal, several main aspects of the new lifestyle will be analysed: motivation for migration and choice of destination, work, home, garden, food, children and social life.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 91-109
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bulgarian
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