Editorial team

About the Editor

Series Editors

Apostolos G. Papadopoulos
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María Jesús Rivera Escribano
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Apostolos G. Papadopoulos is Professor of Rural Sociology and Geography at Harokopio University in Athens, Greece. He studied sociology in Greece (Panteion University) and in the UK (London School of Economics) and holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Sussex in the UK. He has conducted extensive research in the fields of rural studies and migration studies. He has participated in or coordinated fifty (50) research projects and has published over 150 papers in academic journals, books, book chapters and conference papers. He is editor-in-chief of the international journal Sociologia Ruralis and associate editor of NEW MEDIT: Mediterranean Journal of Economics, Agriculture and Environment. He was Vice-president of International Affairs of the European Sociological Association. He is currently coordinator of the ESA RN38 ‘Space, Society and Rurality’. His research interests include social class and social mobility, rural change and social inequalities, rural development and policy, family farming, urban-rural population movements, labour migration and integration, migration and asylum policies, mobilities and spatial justice.
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María Jesús Rivera holds a PhD in Sociology and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Work and a member of the I-Communitas Institute for Advanced Social Research at the Public University of Navarre. She has also developed her career in different institutions such as the University of Liège, the University of Swansea, the Spanish National Research Council and the University of the Basque Country. Her main research interests revolve around two interrelated areas. First, those arising from contemporary processes of rural transformation, such as social representations of the rural, pro-rural migration, neo-ruralities, rural development and depopulation, rural welfare policies and social inequality. On the other hand, topics more specifically related to international labour migration to rural areas and social inclusion. She has participated in various research projects on rural sociology at different scales and has published in national and international journals. She was a member of the editorial board of the journal Sociologia Ruralis and vice-president of the European Society for Rural Sociology. She is currently co-coordinator of the European Sociological Association's research network RN38 'Space, Society and Rurality'.
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