ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book illustrates how the challenges and opportunities presented by globalization have been encountered and experienced in selected rural regions in different parts of Europe. It describes how the restructuring of rural regional economies in the context of globalization is shaped by the interaction of external processes and actors, and regional capacities, resources and agents. The book pulls together research findings from case study regions in the Developing Europe's Rural Regions in the Era of Globalization (DERREG) project. The book discusses that increasing international migration is a feature of several of the regions but with differences in the scale, direction and type of migration concerned. Interestingly, research in Slovenia revealed the role of agents in promoting and facilitating international property purchases, thus consolidating bilateral migration relationships, in this case between Britain and the Pomurje Region.
