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Migration, Community and Identity: Countercultural Lifestyle Migration to Rural Wales, 1965-1980 book cover

1st Edition

Migration, Community and Identity Countercultural Lifestyle Migration to Rural Wales, 1965-1980

By Flossie Caerwynt Copyright 2024
180 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Migration, Community and Identity analyses experiences of migration to rural Wales from 1965 to 1980. It focuses on people who were part of the era’s counterculture, looking for an escape from mainstream society. Using original interviews, the book shows why people moved and how the move shaped their lives and identities. Drawing together geographical and historical research, this book explores... Read more

Introduction

PART 1

Motivations

1 Why leave? Reasons for joining the countercultural migration

2 Making the move: why Wales?

3 Finding a home: mainstream or alternative?

PART 2

Practices

4 Living the dream? The reality of self-sufficiency

5 Making money: employment and entrepreneurship

6 Away from work: hobbies and interests

PART 3

Belonging

7 Fitting into a new community

8 Dych chi’n siarad Cymraeg? Living with the Welsh language

9 Identity: balancing nation and culture

Conclusion

Biography

Flossie Caerwynt is a Research Associate in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at Aberystwyth University. She has an interest in heritage studies and the impact of the past on the present, with a particular focus on alternative lifestyles and experiments in reimaging society.

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