Title  Desenvolvimento em Meio Rural - Contributos da Emigração e do Regresso. Aplicação ao Concelho de Boticas na Região Barrosã (Original)
         Rural Development - Contributions of Emigration and Return. Application to the Municipality of Boticas in the Barrosã Region (EN)
Author  Maria Ortelinda Barros Gonçalves
Advisors Maria da Conceição Pereira Ramos and Maria Manuela Malheiro Dias
Year  2007
Institution Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Open University of Lisbon  
Degree  PhD
Area  Human Geography
Keywords  Migration Sociology, Portuguese migration, Rural development, Migration policy, Return, reinsertion, Investment, Boticas, Vila Real
URI  http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/778

Abstract

Although rurality encloses common traits, rural habitat is characterised by an immense diversity. One of the most important missions of the nowadays researches, oriented to the spatial dimension of development, is to establish typologies, able to capture that diversity. So as to contribute to this mission and to a larger intervention in the territory under study – Region of Boticas in the Barrosã Region -, we intend to answer to the following questions: - which are the implications of the dynamics of the emigration/return in the development of the territory under study? – Which policies/strategies of territorial management should be implemented for the fixation/attraction of the population? In this context, the current investigation is based on several sources of information in a multi-method logic, integrating inquiring, observation and document analyses techniques. This method has allowed the research a larger perspective of information and a bigger richness, as it was constructed, reformulated, tested and rebuilt by analytical induction. We thought of utmost importance to strengthen (facilitating/supporting) the capital (resources) of the rural space under study, highlighting, the capacities, the Know-how and the social, the economic and the cultural changes of the ex-emigrants and the current emigrants, whereas transnational actors of development, promoting directly and indirectly the local community, giving suggestions to overcome the obstacles to the creation of social capital