Virtual special issue: Internal migration in times of COVID-19

Rowe, Francisco ORCID: 0000-0003-4137-0246, Gonzalez-Leonardo, Miguel and Champion, Tony (2023) Virtual special issue: Internal migration in times of COVID-19. POPULATION SPACE AND PLACE, 29 (7).

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Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The COVID‐19 pandemic has potentially altered the system of population movement around the world. As COVID‐19 hit cities the hardest in the wake of the pandemic, apocalyptic headlines anticipated the ‘death of cities’. Yet, little was known about the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on cities and the ways it has shaped the patterns of internal population movement in and out of cities. This virtual special issue aims to consolidate our knowledge of the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on internal migration, discuss key lessons we have learnt so far, and identify areas for future enquiry. It brings together evidence from six different countries: Australia, Germany, Japan, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, covering the pandemic in varying temporal lengths. Systematic patterns emerge. A first commonality is an overall reduction of internal migration rates during the early days of the pandemic but to a lesser degree than expected. Second, the impacts of COVID‐19 leading to out‐migration from cities seem to have been temporary, though evidence from Spain and Britain points to scarring effects with persistent losses in highly dense areas. Third, changes in internal migration generated small impacts on the population structure of cities but large‐scale changes in small, rural and low‐density areas.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	counterurbanisation, COVID-19 pandemic, donut effect, internal migration, urban exodus
Divisions:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Environmental Sciences
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	11 Apr 2023 09:04
Last Modified:	29 Oct 2023 05:39
DOI:	10.1002/psp.2652
Related URLs:	Author Publisher
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3169513