Mobilita residenziale transfrontaliera nel contesto dell'Unione europea : il caso del confine italo-sloveno

italian

2011

Trst    karst 

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The paper offers an insight into an emerging phenomenon of spatial mobility in EU internal border areas. The term "cross-border residential mobility" (CBRM) is suggested for this phenomenon. The phenomenon being studied, which has arisen under the momentum of European integration processes also in the Italian-Slovenian borderland, involves the movements of people who decide to buy real estate and move to the other side of the border, while maintaining atthe same time strong relations with their place of origin. CBRM in this instance is the result of the suburbanization of Trieste, that is the progressive expansion of the urban fabric towards the rural territory of the Slovenian Karst; this has produced some concern in Slovenian public opinion. After an attempt to provide a theoretical framework for CBRM, the author presents the results of a survey carried out among 126 Italian citizens who have moved to the Slovenian Karst. The analysis of these empirical data allows us to obtain knowledge about a scarcely studied phenomenon and to verify the congruencies with the suggested theoretical framework.

05.11.2014