Selective Migration and Unbalanced Sex Ratio in Rural Regions

The activities of the Great Plain Research Department in the ESPON SEMIGRA project have been successfully completed. The research was motivated by the fact that the gendered out-migration result in a ‘deficit’ of young women in the peripheral, mostly underdeveloped rural regions of Europe. The international consortium studied the reasons for and effects of this phenomenon and the expectations of young people in 5 regions of 4 countries, as well as submitted proposals for gender-specific regional development strategies.