ISER Lunchtime Talk: 'Youth Perspectives on Rural Life and Leaving: Accounts and Out-Migration from an Irish Fishing Community,' May 6

Tuesday, May 6, 12-1 p.m. Diplomacy Building, Fifth Floor, Conference Room

Gender disparities in the out-migration of young people from rural fishing regions across the North Atlantic and North Pacific suggest important differences in the ways rural young men and women identify with and experience rural life. Rachel Donkersloot, Ph.D., director of the Working Waterfronts Program for the Alaska Marine Conservation Council, has studied those disparities in the rapidly shifting landscape of a rural Irish fishing community-and examined how "place" influences migration decisions differently for young men and women.

Donkersloot will talk about the importance of understanding young people's migration (and education) decisions in the context of their social groups and locations, family norms, resources and values. She challenges the tendency to categorize those who don't migrate from rural communities as a homogenous group of underachievers. Join us at ISER to hear her discuss how young people's perceived opportunities and access to social, cultural and economic resources underpin their migration decisions and are shifting as rural fishing communities struggle to adapt to changing circumstances.

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