Migration of the disadvantaged

Migration of the disadvantaged is a phenomenon, where the marginalized populations move out from cities to depopulated suburban or rural areas. When rural-urban migration occurs, a young and working population migrates from the rural municipalities to urban areas and the poor from big cities move to empty houses in rural municipalities.

Finland

The phenomenon called "syrjäytyneiden akanvirta" in Finnish, has began at wider range in the beginning of 2000s, when living costs in larger cities have grown. The social support isn't large enough to live in bigger cities when housing costs rise because housing situation is hard in the cities. Marginalized people have also many problems in living, so there is a constant fear of eviction from municipality-owned public housing. People who are poor and suffer from many problems of controlling their lifes, move out to cheap private-owned housing very far away, where living is cheap. There are a number of businessmen, who buy old school buildings and renovate them to housing. The businessmen then offer these apartments as "a place of last resort" for "difficult" cases, that municipalities are reluctant to take into public housing apartments. Even the most marginalized people are welcomed to this kind of housing. [ [http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Migration+of+the+disadvantaged+flows+from+cities+to+depopulated+communities/1135218842945 Helsingin Sanomat international edition] ]

Municipalities that have acknowledged the migration

*Ilomantsi
*Luhanka
*Puolanka
*Rääkkylä

ee also

*Affordable housing
*Community development
*Marginalization
*Poverty
*Refugee
*Rural depopulation
*urbanization
*Second-class citizen
*Social alienation
*Social exclusion

References

* [http://www.vunet.org/article/kolumnit/story215.html Asuntoja varakkaille ja köyhien akanvirta (Erkki Tuomioja)]
* [http://kotiseutu-uutiset.com/paakirjoitus/2006/02/23/asuinkunnalle-uudet-kasvot/ Asuinkunnalle uudet kasvot (Kotiseutu-uutiset)]
* [http://www.hs.fi/artikkeli/Kasvukeskuksista+vie+syrjäytyneiden+paluupuroväestökatokuntiin/HS20060220SI2YO019hg Kasvukeskuksista vie syrjäytyneiden paluupuro väestökatokuntiin (Helsingin Sanomat 20.2.2006)]
* [http://suomi24.pp.fi/talletukset/luodinreiat.htm Yrittäjästä häiriöasukkaan oljenkorsi (Helsingin Sanomat 20.2.2006)]
* [http://www.evl.fi/kkh/to/kdy/Kirkon_maaseutustrategia_2007.pdf Rural area strategy of The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland]
* [http://www.journalistilehti.fi/tuotteet.html?id=29/98 Journalistilehti: Te olette väärässä]
* [http://www.popline.org/docs/1683/301653.html State characteristics and the migration of the disadvantaged]
* [http://www.facs.gov.au/research/austsocpolicy_2005/article3.htm#t3 Australian Social Policy 2005]