| Titre | Contribution à la réflexion théorique sur la mobilité spatiale des populations | |
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| Auteur | Pierre-Jean Thumerelle | |
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Revue | Espace Populations Sociétés |
| Numéro | vol. 3, no 1, 1985 Migrations et urbanisation - Migrations and cities. | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | 1. Quelle analyse des flux migratoires ? - 1. Which approach for migration flows? |
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| Page | 11-17 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Theoretical reflections on migrations and the spatial mobility of populations.
Only a theoretical reflection allows us to conceptualize and to survey the interrelationships, the covariations, and the retroactions in their social, temporal and spatial links. It becomes more and more necessary to formulate a theory which would convey the complexity of our field of investigation.
The splitting of systems into sub-systems allows us to solve the problems we face when working on different geographic and demographic scales (e.g. social and temporal scales) and to establish some kind of correlation between micro and macro-scale studies, which otherwise remain incompatible.
Demogeographers are partial to the field concerning the spatial mobility of individuals, whereas demographers do not find any satisfactory theoretical model for it. This field of study can provide us with the means to define many a system. Spatial mobility is already in itself a very complex system of moves (commuting links, intra-urban migrations, out-migrations etc.) seperately organized into no hierarchy (flux, migratory spheres), intricate sub-systems within the management system of society. The demographic components, the individual behaviours, the spatial distribution and the social structures are some of these sub-systems. The different structures and internal dynamics of each subsystem as well as their retro-active effects determine the spatial mobility of populations which creates new balances but also new tensions and pertubations.
One should not substitute an intellectual speculation to the understanding and description of reality. The internal consistency of the system and its apparent logic should be preferred to the probing into empirical studies. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/espos_0755-7809_1985_num_3_1_994 |
