Purpose: The diaspora phenomenon has a significant impact on human development, but it is seen that very less researchers have explored this area for developing economies and specifically regional level. This research aims to fill this knowledge gap of diaspora and human development themes (DHD) by evaluating global studies and proposing future…

Emerging adults in rural, boom-bust economies face unique challenges, especially in employment and education. Drawing on emerging adult and social disruption hypothesis literatures, this study examined four primary research questions. First, how do emerging adults in rural boom-bust towns in southwest Wyoming understand and experience boom-bust…

As part of an ethnographic study of one rural school-community relationship, this paper explores how school and community leaders conceive of the purpose of schooling in their community, delineates the educational policies and practices that support this purpose, and offers insight into the implications of such a purpose. Adding to the rural…