Urban migrants in rural Japan between agency and anomie in a post-growth society /
Susanne Klien.
- Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Lifestyle migration and mobility: negotiating urban lifestyles in rural communities -- The countryside between aging, lack of perspectives, and creative depopulation through the lens of female settlers -- Post-growth forms of living and working: countryside as experimental ground and social imaginary -- Between agency and anomie, possibility and probability: lifestyle migrants and the neo-liberal moment -- Convergence of work and leisure: blessing or plight? -- Liminal belonging and moratorium migration: lifestyle migrants between limbo and purpose of life -- Social entrepreneurs between self-determination and structural constraints: examples from Miyagi and Tokushima prefectures -- Conclusion: deconstructing Japan's rural-urban divide.