La mobilité en Grèce : tentatives d’évaluation des différentiels d’intensité dans l’espace grec (original) (raw)

The intensification of daily occupational mobility as well as regular mobility between current home and secondary residence without omitting the arrival of foreign population is a phenomenon more and more observed in Europe. If Greece does not escape this process, it seems nevertheless that the intensity of the labour mobility presents relatively strong differences not only from a region to the other one but also at intraregional scale. The diverse forms of mobility reflect mutations in the organization and the functioning of territories, especially in the rural zones polarized by a small – medium urban center whereas the expansion of living space could contribute to a certain economic and consequently demographic revival of these "small" territories, corresponding to geographical and\or sociocultural territorial entities. In order to approach these diverse mutations, it is necessary to proceed to an evaluation of the different forms of mobility as well as their relative intensity which is widely, conditioned by the spatial scale chosen. The objective of the present work is thus, on the basis of the last census data, to analyze the phenomena of mobility at relatively fine territorial scales (Local Administrative Unit - LAU1), and propose a valuation method of the labor mobility through indicators suited to this small spatial scale. This method has to take into account the existence of specific patterns in the spatial distribution of the mobility (spatial autocorrelation) as well as variables suited to reflect the non homogeneity of human behaviors.