Vol. 24 No. 1 (2021)
Articles

City-Village Mobility During Covid-19 Pandemic

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  • Desislava PILEVA,
  • Ivaylo MARKOV

Published 05/03/2022

Keywords

  • mobility,
  • counter-urbanisation,
  • rural area,
  • COVID-19,
  • crisis

How to Cite

PILEVA, D., & MARKOV, I. (2022). City-Village Mobility During Covid-19 Pandemic. Psychological Research (in the Balkans), 24(1). Retrieved from https://journalofpsychology.org/index.php/1/article/view/17

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures introduced to contain it have created a new social reality in which people continue their lives in ways that for many are different from the previous routine. Spatial mobility is one of the most affected areas of everyday life and an integral part of the sociocultural dimensions of this crisis. According to some observations, restricted movement during the state of emer gency in the country additionally activates these processes, prompting some people to seek more spatial freedom in rural areas.
This article observes and analyses the urban-rural migration within the context of the current corona virus crises, based on ethnographic materials, commented alongside information from secondary sources - statistics, sociological surveys, analysis of the real estate market, and materials from print and electronic media.

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