Students mobility, gender and polycentrism in Europe

Students mobility, gender and polycentrism in Europe

[SHS:GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography

Mobility

Gender

Cities

Networks

Europe

Polycentrism

This paper underline the need for a more critical approach to classic understanding of the European spatial integration that give to much importance to the concepts of hierarchy and areas of influence. The study shows that the the student mobility between the cities is polycentric and balanced i.e. that no city or pair of city dominates the network of exchanges. In a European context where 61% of migrating students are female, this work highlights moreover the fact that migratory behaviour of females go further to questioning the neo-classic models of spatial mobility than do those of male students.

Cattan, Nadine

Cities and networks in Europe. A critical approach of polycentrism

2007

ENG

scientific book chapter

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00250687

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/25/06/87/PDF/LR-mobilite-europe.pdf