While immigrants are still predominantly choosing urban areas to locate to, there is now increasing evidence of immigration to rural areas, leading to its own challenges for immigrants. Addressing the shortcomings in current research, this book employs an innovative approach by exploring this relationship from a cross-national, comparative and global perspective. It will appeal to policy makers as well as scholars across a range of disciplines.

Birgit Jentsch is Senior Researcher at the Ionad Nàiseanta na h-Imrich (National Centre for Migration Studies), Scotland. Myriam Simard is Research Professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Canada

List of Figures and Tables, Notes on Contributors, Acknowledgements, Series Editor's Preface, 1 Introduction: Key Issues in Contemporary Rural Immigration, 2 Taken by Surprise: New Immigrants in the Rural United States, 3 Retention and Departure Factors Influencing Highly Skilled Immigrants in Rural Areas: Medical Professionals in Quebec, Canada, 4 From Enthusiasm to Perplexity and Scepticism: International Migrants in the Rural Regions of Greece and Southern Europe, 5 Migration to Rural Ireland: A North Cork Case Study, 6 The New Scottish Rural Labour Market: Processes of Inclusion and Exclusion, 7 Immigrants and Receiving Communities in Rural Russia: Experiences from the Central European and the Far East Regions, 8 Conclusion: Comparative Perspectives on Rural Immigrants' Integration, Index