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ABSTRACT
This article aims at revealing the impacts of depopulation in terms of the violation of the occupational rights of people who live in rural areas, away from large urban centres. The starting point is an overview of the inequalities that emerge in neglected rural areas in the European Union, followed by an analysis of the Spanish context with ageing as a salient factor. Then, the influence of rural territories on occupation is assessed, discussing the violation of occupational rights. Finally, there is a description of different macro and micro actions to address some of the occupational injustices in rural areas and to favour equality in the exercise of occupational rights from the standpoint of occupational science.
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Notes
1 TN, in Spanish in the original: “para contrastar diagnósticos, respuestas y fomentar un aprendizaje en red que inspire actuaciones compartidas, innovadoras y contextualizadas sobre el territorio” (Pinilla & Saez, Citation2017, p. 18).