This edited collection aims to examine the global-rural relationship of migration that shapes rural places. It does this by acknowledging that to understand the impact of the international migration-global nexus, it is essential to explore how it is experienced at a local level - in the context of this book, rural regions. Focusing on agribusiness and rural development, as well as the othering of international migrants and the shifting boundaries of belonging in rural spaces, the chapters in this book examine how globalisation, with migration being a constitutive feature, influences different...

The book is based on the multi-country collaborative research project Becoming a Young Farmer: Young People’s Pathways into Farming in Four Countries (2017-2021). The four countries are: Canada, China, India, and Indonesia. It responds directly and concretely to concerns about the generational sustainability of smallholder farming worldwide– reflected in the current UN Decade of Family Farming. Most current research and literature center on why young people leave farming. The book draws on research that instead asks: “Given the constraints they face, how do (some) young people continue...