Immigrant internal migration in a new destination country: Do immigrants suburbanise in Czechia and why?

Abstract

International migrants are often a major force reshaping settlement geography. However, their role in urbanisation processes has predominantly been explored in more established immigration countries, whereas such knowledge remains limited in Central and Eastern Europe. This paper investigates trends in participation of different groups of foreign residents in urbanisation processes in Czechia, which has recently become a new immigration destination. Using a longitudinal dataset of the Czech migration registers (2005-2017), it assesses the extent of participation in urbanisation processes. It also evaluates the strength of sociodemographic and place-based factors contributing to suburbanisation, a process which makes the Czech suburbs the settlement type with highest net migration and to which both the Czech majority and the immigrant population contribute. The paper finds similarities between the internal migration of different immigrant groups and that of the Czech majority, indicating the predominance of suburbanisation of affluence, notably in culturally and economically well-off groups.

Population Flow Mechanism Study of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Agglomeration from Industrial Space Supply Perspective

“…Population flow is also an important tool to study urbanization process. Scholars studied population flow in various countries and regions [24,25], interpreting the stages and characteristics of urbanization through destination changes and quantitative changes of population flow, to illuminate the characteristics and influencing factors of urbanization [26] and counter-urbanization [25,[27][28][29][30][31], rural gentrification [32] etc. China's rapid urbanization has also led to rapid and multiple changes in population pattern and network in a short period.…”