URBAN-RURAL RELATIONSHIPS IN KINSHIP RELATIONS (Examples of migrating Macedonian families)

Urban-rural relations in Europe

The effects of economic rural-urban relations on food security of rural households Case study: Zanjan County

Introduction The interaction and mutual cooperation of rural and urban areas in developing countries is different from the developed ones. The type of relations between villages and town can affect different aspects of rural lifestyle, one of them is its effect on food security. Researches show that the range of effectiveness of such relations include property, the use of new technology, suppo...

Rural-to-urban migration, kinship networks, and fertility among the Igbo in Nigeria.

Like many African rural-to-urban migrants, Igbo-speaking migrants to cities in Nigeria maintain close ties to their places of origin. 'Home people' constitute a vital core of most migrants' social networks. The institution of kinship enables migrants to negotiate Nigeria's clientelistic political economy. In this context, dichotomous distinctions between rural and urban can be inappropriate ana...

Representing Kinship Relations on the Semantic Web

Kinship plays a fundamental role in human communities as a basic principle for organizing individuals into social groups. Representing kinship relationships in a formal and precise way is then a crucial task when modelling many knowledge domains, and it may constitute a relevant benchmark for the reasoning layer of the Semantic Web. In this paper we face the problem of representing some basic a...

Families in former times. Kinship, household, and sexuality

he classified them on the grounds of their symptoms." (pp. 60-61). In accordance with these assumptions Dr. Potter devotes much of his commentary to suggesting objective counterparts for the author's description of symptoms. I believe that this is an unprofitable undertaking, and that the assumptions are false. No-one would want to deny that there is some correspondence between the author's des...