Back-to-the-Land Movement. Motives for Lifestyle Migration and Strategies for New Life Cover Image

Движението „обратно към земята“. Мотиви за лайфстайл миграция и стратегии за начин на живот
Back-to-the-Land Movement. Motives for Lifestyle Migration and Strategies for New Life

Author(s): Atanaska Stancheva
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Rural and urban sociology, Migration Studies, Globalization
Published by: Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей при БАН
Keywords: lifestyle migration; back-to-the-land migrants; “alive places”; alternative food networks

Summary/Abstract: The article summarizes the motives for lifestyle migration from the city to the village of back-to-the-land migrants in Bulgaria. Among these motives are the search for and the achievement of self-realization through the initiatives initiated and the pursuit of a better and quality life. The survey shows that in the majority of respondents there is a contradiction between the notions of life in rural areas and its actual implementation. Achieving economic sustainability through the activities undertaken a major challenge, and the migrants develop different strategies to deal with it.The existence of their initiatives in the unstable context of the culture of capitalism is important for their development. Despite the difficulties, the various models that the representatives of the back-to-the-land movement are developing can serve as an example of the implementation of positive transformations in rural areas.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 13-33
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Bulgarian