El ‘efecto barrio’ en la inmovilidad residencial en Granada

Inside urban development, residential mobility has always played an essential role in urban change. But immobility, whether freely chosen or imposed, must also be taken into account as a key factor in urban reconfiguration. Therefore, although academic interest has focused mainly on the study of mobility, in this article we focus on residential immobility. Specifically, we are interested in the duration of immobility trajectories and to what extent these trajectories are influenced by (i) the social characteristics of the neighborhood, and (ii) the social ties we make in the neighborhood. Using microdata from a representative survey of the metropolitan area of Granada conducted in 2008 and running regression models, our results indicate that simply living in depressed areas increases the chances of staying there for a longer period. But, the presence of social networks is also a powerful driver of immobility, indicating the important role that these factors play when it comes to sociospatial reproduction of the city.