ABSTRACT
Since the 1970s a new migration trend has emerged in industrial societies. It is rural resettlement: the migration to the countryside of idealistic urbanites to enact a new way of life, usually centered on farming. With its emphasis on recovering a connection to land and nature, this migration expresses opposition to the dominant values of the larger urban-industrial society (for Britain, see Pepper 1991; for France, see McDonald 1989; for the United States, see Berry 1992).
