Outmigration from Rural Scotland, 2000

The focus of this project was on the community consequences of out-migration and the migration experiences of individuals. The objectives of the research were:<br> to analyse out-migration data from the 1991 Census;<br> to test the value of the Register of Sasines for migration research;<br> to describe and evaluate the characteristics of out-migration, the destinations involved, the decision-making processes at work, the consequences for rural communities and the experiences of individual outmigrants;<br> to ascertain why, in an era of counter-urbanisation, out-migration of the young continues;<br> to identify important issues requiring innovative rural policy-making.