Migración secundaria en Quebec: Sainte-Marie (Montreal)

Abstract

Cities excessively horizontally grow. Migrants looking to satisfy their basic needs frequently settle on the most deprived central neighbourhoods of a city to migrate again from there towards peripheral areas in a secondary move. The article’s objective is to identify the causes to validate the hypothesis of insufficient will to continue locally there. With the assistance of a SPSS system, the survey found from 65.7% of the interviewed residents with at least five years seniority in Montreal’s peri-central area (Sainte-Marie) that 37.1% shows just a regular will to continue living there. The existence of a significant need – impedance (or difficulty) relation for a residential – local services improving was identified by the study as the cause for a possible secondary migration to somewhere else. This contribution exposed the reason why central re-densification initiatives and actions fail.