Intra-European Rural Migrations. Territorialities and Rural Dynamics in the South of France and the North of Spain

This paper studies territorialities and contemporary rural dynamics in the south of France and the north of Spain based on the impact of intra-European rural migrations. Its methodology is based on: 1) the understanding and the practise of categories and classifications such as fields of knowledge and relation; 2) fieldwork data as the starting point for developing an ethnography based on observations, interviews and maps. Furthermore, secondary information was considered in order to measure the global significance of this phenomenon. Consequently, the paper highlights the existence of conflicts and negotiations between immigrants and local people, theoretical concepts applicable to similar situations, and the extension of the thematic corpus on rural migrations -studies which, in Europe, have focused on migration in southern continents.