Öztürk, MuratTopaloğlu, BeşirHilton, AndyJongerden, Joost2019-06-272019-06-272018151944-89531944-89611944-89531944-8961https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/292Based on original data this article discusses ruralurban mobilities and the contemporary employmentmigration relationship. Starting with the observation of reduced rural population but maintained family-farm numbers it engages with multiple issues including rural employment the process of urban migration settlement in the city the relation of migrants to the rurality and (return) counter-migration. It supports the thesis that migration is not so much about a movement from one place to another' the classical migration definition and more about a coupling of practices (related to mobilities residence employment etc.) with places over time. Thus migration and counter-migration are conceptualized as socio-spatial strategies conceptualized as multi-place living' or dual life' which are based on variable engagements with rural farming urban wage labour and return movements (for retirement refuge etc.). The newly emergent and growing dual/multi-place structures that result from this are re-shaping village life in particular expressed in various ways such as in a changing village demography and function.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessRural-Urban MobilitiesPeasantsPrecarityCounter-UrbanizationTurkeyArticle513530520WOS:00043829640000710.1080/19448953.2018.14066962-s2.0-85049928427Q2Q1