residential mobility trends in a time of crisis. alicante 2013

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Residential mobility trends in a time of crisis

Dr. Raquel HueteDepartment of Sociology I

Alicante, November 2013





Summary

• About lifestyle migration

• The case of Alicante

• What is happening?

• The future





Lifestyle migration: about the concept

North Europeans moving to the South; French buying second homes in Morocco, US citizens retiring to Mexico, or even students going on a gap year…

Affluent migrants migrate, oscillate, circulate or tour between their home and host countries in search of something encapsulated in the notion of the rural idyll or signified in the distinction between tourism and travel.






Some retain a home in more than one place, some work in one place and live in another; others simply move, while others still simply visit.






LM is a conceptual framework with which to explain the new migration forms, which have more to do with self-realisation projects, and the search for an intangible ‘good life’ than with strictly productive activities.





Permanent residents

foreign citizens who own a home, and are registered.

Temporary residents

foreign citizens who live in a home that

they do not own (it is rented, a timeshare,

or owned by relatives or friends), and are

registered.

Second home owners

foreign citizens who own a

home, but are not registered.

Tourists

foreign citizens who do not own a

home, nor are registered,

Further reading

Migration

Tourism




http://www.academia.edu/1334357/Residential_tourism_or_lifestyle_migration._Social_problems_linked_to_the_non-definition_of_the_situation


Tourism and migration in Alicante

According to official data:

Tourism data

95,000 beds in tourist apartments

71,000 beds in hotels

27,000 beds in campsites

Housing data:

1,3M houses

527,000 registered as wide or second homes

The case of Alicante





UK 130,286

Germany 36,531

Romania 32,683

Netherlands 16,499

Bulgaria 12,687

France 11,258

Belgium 10,655

Italy 10,687

Sweden 6,200

Ireland 4,469

70% actual population isregistered according todifferent surveys.

Main countries







Total population

EU population

In 21

municipalities,

foreigners from

EU outnumber

Spanish people

(2013 INE).

In 4 towns,

foreigners

account for 70%

of the

population.© ASTI, 2010





Employment had grown between 1995 and 2007 at an average annual rate of 4.1%.

The unemployment rate went from 8.5% in the first quarter of 2007 to 27.2% in the first quarter of 2013,

2.5 million jobs were destroyed during that period. Almost half of them were jobs in the construction sector and the real estate market





The analysis of residential variations by nationalities between 2005 and 2010 shows that, when faced with the economic crisis, the so-called lifestyle migrants are changing their mobility patterns in a way similar to the rest of migrants.





Huete, R.; Mantecón, A. & Estévez, J. (2013) “Challenges in lifestyle migration research: reflections and findings about the Spanish crisis”, en Mobilities, vol. 8, nº 3.




http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17450101.2013.814236









What is happening?

The crisis has not only led to an exodus of citizens with less economic resources, it has also caused the mass departure of those other immigrants whose presence in Spain is associated with consumption.





Theoretical implications

There are separate socio-economic profiles within each nationality, so the label ‘lifestyle migrant’ cannot be associated with a particular national origin. It would be more convenient to approach the residential behaviour of each group as part of the same continuum of mobility types. When the category lifestyle migration includes individuals linked to the formal or informal economy, regardless of their being employed on a part-time or full-time basis, or the meaning they attach to their job, the differences in regard to other types of migration disappear.





The future

New “markets”?Chinese and Russian

http://www.diarioinformacion.com/vega-baja/2013/11/26/daya-vieja-autoriza-urbanizacion-600/1441996.html

Daya Vieja, Alicante. INE

















Total dwellings 1,274,096

Main dwellings 738,367

Secondary dwellings 326,705

Empty dwellings 209,024

Alicante province, INE 2011 Census





Daya Vieja, Alicante. INE





Huete, R.; Mantecón, A. & Estévez, J. (2013) “Challenges in lifestyle migration research: reflections and findings about the Spanish crisis”, en Mobilities, vol. 8, nº 3.

Huete, R. & Mantecón, A. 2012. Residential tourism or lifestyle migration. Social problems linked to the non-definition of the situation. In O. Moufakkir and P. Burns (eds.) Controversies in Tourism. Wallingford: CABI, pp. 160-173

Mantecón, A. & Huete, R. 2011. Sociological insights on residential tourism: host society attitudes in a mature destination. European Journal of Tourism Research, 4 (2):109-122

Mantecón, A. & Huete, R. 2008. The value of authenticity in residential tourism. The decision-maker's point of view. Tourist Studies, 8 (3): 359-376.

Mazón, T., Huete, R. & Mantecón, A. (eds.) 2011. Construir una nueva vida. Los espacios del turismo and la migración residencial. Santander: Milrazones.

Mazón, T., Huete, R. & Mantecón, A. (eds.) 2009.Turismo, urbanización y estilos de vida. Las nuevas formas de la movilidad residencial. Barcelona: Icaria.

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