Call for Papers for the Association of American Geographers Annual
Meeting, New York City, February 24-28, 2012
Non-Metropolitan Regional Development & Migration
Organizer: Tim Elrick (University of Erlangen)
Increasingly, non-metropolitan in industrialized countries have to
compete on a global level for scarce, (highly) skilled human resources,
in order to keep pace with structural changes and the growth of
service-oriented economies. As (highly) skilled workers favor certain
location factors that are generally found in urban environments, the
competition is bi-scalar: the regions have to compete nationally against
more attractive ones as well as internationally for ‘the best brains’.
While many countries have recently relaxed migration policies for highly
skilled migrants, entrepreneurial migrants and international students,
many of these tend to cluster in urban agglomerations. Increasingly,
non-metropolitan regions seem to take up the challenge to attract these
international migrants, in order to keep up with urban agglomerations.
In this session we would like to discuss the nexus between national and
international migration and regional development in non-metropolitan
regions, on theoretical and empirical grounds.
Interested participants should send expressions of interest, questions
and/or an abstract of max. 250 words to Tim Elrick
([log in to unmask]). Abstracts (following AAG
guidelines:
http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers/abstract_guidelines)
should be sent no later than September, 12th, 2011.
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