Spatial capital and planetary gentrification: residential location, mobility and social inequalities

Rérat, Patrick

doi:10.4337/9781785361746.00016

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“…Motility, as well as concepts of mobility capital or spatial capital (Lévy, 2000;Murphy-Lejeune, 2003;Rérat, 2018;Schäfer, 2020), implies that mobility is a capital that may be accumulated through experiences (migration, temporary mobility, holidays) that favour future mobility (e.g., by learning to cope in different contexts). In this sense, mobility reproduces itself (Carlson, 2013) and a lack of experience may lead to a lower propensity to engage in temporary mobility.…”

Section: Barriers 1 To Temporary Mobilitymentioning

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Between stuckness and stillness: Why do young adults not undertake temporary mobility?

Haldimann

Heers

Rérat

2021

Population Space and Place

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Youth temporary mobility occurs for purposes such as volunteering, Erasmus exchanges and linguistic stays. Although it is increasingly common, a large proportion of young adults are not mobile. This study is based on a large-scale survey among young adults in Switzerland. It draws on the concept of motility to analyse the barriers to temporary mobility, where motility may be defined as a set of mobility resources that refer to three dimensions: access (e.g., financial means or time), skills (e.g., languages and self-confidence) and appropriation (e.g., level of interest). A typology places nonmobile young adults on a continuum between 'stillness' (no desire to move) and 'stuckness' (unable to move) and identifies four groups: 'the constrained' and 'the financially challenged' are often constrained to a varying extent by their socio-economic background, their educational pathways and their family network. 'The locally anchored' and especially 'the satisfied stayers' face fewer constraints and draw more on their own agency to be nonmobile.

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Section: Barriers 1 To Temporary Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Between stuckness and stillness: Why do young adults not undertake temporary mobility?

Haldimann

Heers

Rérat

2021

Population Space and Place

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“…We consider formal (within legal regulation) and informal (escape legal regulation) strategies. For us, mobility strategies arise from an entrepreneur's "mastery or command over space" [56] (p. 115), which can involve both mobility and immobility. It includes not only the ability to move oneself across space, but also the ability to move goods, capital, ideas, and (other) people, which can reduce the need to be personally mobile.…”

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Spatial Mobility Capital: A Valuable Resource for the Social Mobility of Border-Crossing Migrant Entrepreneurs?

Riaño¹,

Mittmasser²,

Sandoz³

2022

Societies

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Spatial mobility is considered a valuable resource for social mobility. Yet, we still have an insufficient understanding of the extent to which and under what conditions geographical movement across national borders represents an asset for social advancement. Addressing this research gap, we offer a theoretical contribution to the fields of transnationalism, migration/mobility, and social geography. We focus on 86 cross-border migrant entrepreneurs who live in Barcelona (Spain), Cúcuta (Colombia), and Zurich (Switzerland), and combine geographical and mental maps, biographical interviews, ethnographic observations, and participatory Minga workshops. Our results show significant inequality in opportunity among the studied entrepreneurs and reveal different geographies of risk and uncertainty for their cross-border mobilities. We theoretically propose that the ability to use spatial mobility as a resource for social mobility depends largely on three intersecting factors: the entrepreneur’s social position, his or her location in geographical space, and his or her strategies. Moreover, we have formulated the concept of spatial mobility capital to define the necessary conditions for spatial mobility to become a valuable resource for social advancement: individuals must be in control of their spatial mobilities, such mobilities need to match their socio-economic needs and personal aspirations, and they must be able to move safely.

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“…Those without these resources are left with locations of disinvestment and at a locational disadvantage (Revington, 2015). Investments in the built environment may therefore serve to reinforce spatial inequalities and may open new markets for the re-entry of capital by the most advantaged class, resulting in gentrification (Rérat, 2018).…”

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Transit-induced gentrification and displacement: The state of the debate

Delmelle

2021

Advances in Transport Policy and Planning

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Investments in new transportation infrastructure hold the potential to transform the urban socioeconomic landscape by reshaping accessibility and by encouraging new developments around these investments. This chapter outlines the theoretical arguments for why and how transport, specifically rail transit, is expected to impact the socioeconomic composition of neighborhoods and reviews the relevant empirical literature on the subject. Neighborhood socioeconomic change, including gentrification, can be viewed as the product of shifts in residential sorting of residents reacting to the placement of a new (transit) amenity which may place increased demand for living in a particular area. This demand may place an upward pressure on nearby housing values and rents, affecting the socioeconomic composition of those willing and able to afford these price premiums, thus spurring or accelerating gentrification. Rising land values may also lead to the disproportionate exit of lower-income residents unable to keep up with elevated rents or property taxes. To date, the empirical evidence on the link between transport investments and gentrification has mixed findings, very often underscoring the importance of local context in directing a neighborhood's path. Research has overwhelmingly centered on aggregate neighborhood changes, but several studies have recently emerged that center on individual movements that give rise to these neighborhood-scale outcomes.

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Spatial capital and planetary gentrification: residential location, mobility and social inequalities

Cited by 14 publications

References 41 publications

Between stuckness and stillness: Why do young adults not undertake temporary mobility?

Between stuckness and stillness: Why do young adults not undertake temporary mobility?

Spatial Mobility Capital: A Valuable Resource for the Social Mobility of Border-Crossing Migrant Entrepreneurs?

Transit-induced gentrification and displacement: The state of the debate

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