Rural youth and migration
Rural youth and migration

Lessons learned in times of pandemic

Author(s): Claudia Jurado Alvarán
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: rural youth; globalization; generational change; times of pandemic
Summary/Abstract: This article presents a research analysis of some ways of understanding the migratory movements of rural youth in Caldas in times of pandemic. The fundamental thesis is that the global transformations, the environmental, economic and social trends of the quarantines decreed during the COVID-19 pandemic contribute to the resignification of young people’s life in the countryside and rural territories in the department of Caldas (Colombia). The methodology used considered the narratives of rural youth as inputs into analyzing the trends of staying in the countryside or migrating, based on the changes that occurred in their areas, in the framework of the policies decreed as a result of the pandemic such as prolonged quarantines. The results show that rural youth are beginning to develop a new sense of living and staying in the countryside, addressing issues related to the changes in the populated centers closest to their rural areas and the new socio-economic and environmental dynamics of the countryside in the transit of the year 2020.

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