ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on certain aspects of rural municipalities as refugee-receiving environments, may be seen as such an example. It investigates certain municipal strategies for enhancing rural living conditions strategies developed as a response to external processes and political expectations. The chapter argues that external global and national processes in external factor case are contributing to renewal and development at a local level. The increased interest in the relation between the rural and ethnicity has not led to a corresponding increase in planning studies dealing with issues of how to encourage or build up a suitable structure for international migration processes. These processes occasionally give rise to explicit and intentional actions from municipalities and involve municipal strategies emerging from both exogenous and endogenous transformations and challenges. Strategies promoting voluntarily as well as involuntarily migration refugee migration accompanied by service sector growth may be one possible path for some rural municipalities.
