Rural areas are often viewed as isolated and stagnating areas and urban areas as their opposites. This book corrects this misconception. It illustrates that rural areas are dynamic and interconnected by flows and mobilities.

Illustrates that rural areas are dynamic and interconnected by flows and mobilities Shows that flow on various scale levels are affecting rural space Provides examples of flows that are connecting rural areas on various scale levels like migration, commuting, everyday life activities, business networks and information technology

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1: Translocal ruralism: mobility and connectivity in European rural spaces: Charlotta Hedberg and Renato Miguel do Carmo.- I:Linking nodes: people and networks connecting places: 2: Between margimalisation and urbanisation: mobilities and social change in Southern Portugal: Renato Miguel do Carmo and Sofia Santos.- 3: The ties that bind? Spatial (im)mobilities and the transformation of rural-urban connections: Hendrike Rau.- 4: 'The rural' intervening in the lives of internal and international migrants: migrants, biographies and translocal pratices: Susanne Stenbacka.- 5: Youth 'settles' by mobility: ethnography of a Portuguese village: Vanda Aparecida da Silva.- 6: Migration dynamics in Romania and the counter-urbanisation process: a case study of Bucharest's rural-urban fringe: Liliana Guran and Michael Sofer.- 7: Local embeddedness and global links in rural areas: euclidean and relational space in business networks: Alexandre Dubois, Andrew Copus, Moa Hedström.- II: Internationalmobilities: a tension between scales: 8: When the world goes rural: transnational potentials of international migration in rural Swedish labour markets: Charlotta Hedberg, Gunnel Forsberg and Ali Najib.- 9: Foreigners, neighbours, immigrants: translocal mobilities in rural areas in Spain: Luis Camarero, Rosario Sampedro and Jesús Olivia.- 10: Transnational immigration in rural Greece: analysing the different mobilities of Albanian immigrants: Apostolos Papadopoulos.- 11: Golaka Dhama: a translocal Hare Krishna community: Louise Meijering.- 12: Boundary crossings: migration, belonging/'un-belonging" in rural Scotland: Philomena de Lima