Residential Mobility, Gentrification and Neighborhood Change in Spanish Cities
Urban neighborhoods in Barcelona and Madrid are currently experiencing intense social transformations, with exclusive (and excluding) areas expanding (more or less rapidly) in resurgent central spaces. Recent literature suggests that, in parallel with urban expansion and latent reurbanization, the m...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2020 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repository: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:325820 |
| Online Access: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/325820 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1007/s40980-020-00069-0 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Residential mobility Skilled migration Gentrification Neighborhood change Southern Europe |
| Summary: | Urban neighborhoods in Barcelona and Madrid are currently experiencing intense social transformations, with exclusive (and excluding) areas expanding (more or less rapidly) in resurgent central spaces. Recent literature suggests that, in parallel with urban expansion and latent reurbanization, the most vulnerable population segments are being displaced and concentrated in suburban areas with worse access to all types of services. By proposing a comprehensive analysis of annual data on migration and residential mobility based on municipal population registers, the present study outlines the role of an increasing participation of highly qualified individuals in migratory and residential flows to explain changes in social composition at the intra-urban spatial scale. For the first time in Spain, we have been able to consider the impact of an individual variable assessing 'education level' on migration and residential mobility patterns, allowing a better characterization of interconnected processes of population substitution, polarization and segregation. |
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