To Go or To Stay? The Motivation Behind Immobility in A Hungarian Micro-Region

Ondrik Szonja () and Ágnes Varga
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Ondrik Szonja: Szonja Ondrik, MSc. Student, Ludovika University of Public Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

European Countryside, 2024, vol. 16, issue 3, 385-411

Abstract: While the motivations behind rural mobility have been extensively studied, the factors determining immobility are less discussed. In this study, we applied a quantitative and qualitative methodology built on a theoretical framework based on the literature to analyse primary and secondary data to answer the following question: What factors play a primary role in someone from a relatively disadvantaged rural area deciding in favour of immobility? Our results showed that those who remained in the region surveyed had the resources to build a life elsewhere, but family ties, property, or the fact that the way of life they desired in the city could not be realised bound them to their homeland.

Keywords: rural immobility; social network; quantitative and qualitative (mixed) research methods; Hungary (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.2478/euco-2024-0021

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