Social mobility presupposes geographical mobility in many rural areas. Migration decisions
feature prominently in the lives of rural adolescents, and the viability of local communities …

This article deals with the rural community of Fjallabyggð in North Iceland and second home
inhabitants of the constituent villages of Siglufjörður and Ólafsfjörður. Up to a quarter of the …

Samanburður fjölbreyttra, síbreytilegra nútímasamfélaga við hefðbundin
landbúnaðarsamfélög fyrri tíma var frumkvöðlum félagsfræðinnar hugleikinn. Á 20. öldinni …

Í þessari yfirlitsgrein er bent á að þrátt fyrir að sjávarútvegurinn tengist sterkt íslenskri
þjóðernisvitund má víða greina mótsagnir er tengjast ímynd hans. Enn eru skipstjórar efstir í …

In the decades since World War II, large‐scale ecological changes have affected fishing
communities across the northern Atlantic. Substantial declines hit their historically important …

Northern Atlantic fisheries have experienced a series of environmental shifts in recent
decades, involving collapse or large fluctuations of the dominant fish assemblages. Over …

Preferred emigration destinations among adolescents reflect images and stereotypes of
other countries that continuously emerge in a multitude of local and global discourses and …

Í mars 2011 voru 20.526 erlendir ríkisborgarar á Íslandi en voru 3.957 talsins árið 1996. Af
þessu er ljóst að mikil breyting hefur orðið á fjölda þeirra á síðustu fimmtán árum. Markmið …

Flest byggðarlög á Íslandi einkennast af miklum hreyfanleika og háu hlutfalli aðfluttra íbúa.
Innan við helmingur fullorðinna íbúa Akureyrar, Dalvíkur og Húsavíkur eru innfædd og …

Iceland s population of approximately fifty thousand inhabitants did not change appreciably
from the end of the settlement period in the late twelfth century until the mid-nineteenth …