Urban Agglomerations and Demographic Mobility: The Case of Campinas, Brazil

This present article discusses the complexity of the dynamics of migration in a large urban agglomeration. This complexity can be seen both in the different types of movements involved, as well as in the individual and collective characteristics of the migrants themselves. Data from a recent household survey taken in 2007 was used to analyze the spatial mobility of the population on the basis of distinct spatial delimitations and on information taken from the Brazilian demographic censuses. The author analyzes the characteristics of residential mobility (and of the individuals involved) in view of several different factors. He also presents considerations on the possible impacts and consequences of these factors in the socio-spatial dynamics of an important Brazilian metropolitan region, that of Campinas, in the State of São Paulo.