Since then, there has been constant pressure for people to accept relocation to the rural periphery of the city.

In these demolitions some shack dwellers were simply being left homeless and others subjected to unlawful forced evictions to the rural periphery of the city.

The so-called "rural periphery" or the land that was located outside a two-hour radius from an urban center was being cultivated inefficiently and ineffectively.

While some groups emigrated to Poland or Austria, many chose to avoid the border patrols and instead fled to the rural periphery and the river regions already inhabited by the Cossacks.

What seemed to be happening was the spread of population growth out from the major urban centres where it had occurred in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries progressively to the more rural periphery, leaving a population loss in its wake.

In 1995, she obtained her PhD at the University of Ljubljana under the supervision of Peter Vodopivec, with a thesis on the changing attitudes towards death in the 19th century rural peripheries of Trieste.

In a remarkable chapter of wide-ranging scope and sympathy, Mr. Montgomery makes historically visible the huge, often transient army of America's common laborers: the new generation of Italians, Poles, Finns and Afro-Americans recruited from the rural periphery that ringed the trans-Atlantic industrial world.