International Immigration, Integration and Sustainability in Small Towns and Villages

Ricard Morén-Alegret is Tenured Associate Professor of Geography at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.Dawid Wladyka is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA.

• 1. Introduction: Small Can Be More Than Beautiful. - Part 1. Setting the European Stage in a Changing World: Sustainability and Migration Challenges. - 2. Conceptualising (Rural) Sustainability in the Migration Age. - 3. Integration, Immigration and Sustainability in European Small Towns and Rural Areas: Achieving Long-Term Immigrants' Settlement Beyond the Metropolitan Areas?. - Part 2. Outcomes of Investigating in Various European Small Towns and Rural Areas. - 4. International Comparative Research in Europe: Introducing Research Methods. - 5. Southern Europe: Comparing the Cases of Empordà in NE Catalonia, Spain, and Atlentejo Litoral in SW Portugal. - 5. North-West Europe: Comparing the Case of South Warwickshire in Central England, UK, and the Case of Poitou-Charentes, in New Aquitaine, West France. - Part 3. Beyond Small Towns Talks: Reflections and Proposals for a Better Europe and Planet. - 6. Final Considerations: How to Improve Future Policies on Rural and Small-Town Sustainability and Immigrants' Integration?.