Mobility hub or hollow? : cross-border travelling in the Mediterranean, 1995–2016

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dc.contributor.authorDEUTSCHMANN, Emanuel
dc.contributor.authorRECCHI, Ettore
dc.contributor.authorBICCHI, Federica
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-26T09:53:23Z
dc.date.available2019-07-26T09:53:23Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionFirst published online: 23 July 2019
dc.description.abstractThe Mediterranean is often portrayed as a hub of human mobility. In this article, we test this widespread view by exploring the structure of travel flows in the region over the last two decades (1995–2016). We find that mobility is much higher and increasing more strongly along the northern than along the southern shore, thus creating a growing mobility divide. South–north and north–south movements are even scarcer and stagnate or even decline over time. With a Gini coefficient of .87, mobility flows are distributed extremely unequally across country pairs in the Mediterranean. Community detection algorithms reconfirm that mobility predominantly takes place in disparate clusters around the Mediterranean, not across it. These findings imply that a ‘neo-Braudelian’ view of the Mediterranean as a mobility hub is less justified than a ‘Rio Grande’ perspective that conceives of the Mediterranean as a mobility hollow. Multivariate regression models for network data suggest that geographical distance and, to a lesser extent, political visa regulations, explain the unequal mobility structure better than differences in economic well-being.en
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dc.identifier.citationGlobal networks, 2021, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 146-169en
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/glob.12259
dc.identifier.endpage169
dc.identifier.issn1471-0374
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.startpage146
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/63705
dc.identifier.volume21
dc.language.isoenen
dc.orcid.putcode1814/79732:59901451
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dc.publisherWileyen
dc.relation.ispartofGlobal networksen
dc.relation.ispartofseries[Migration Policy Centre]en
dc.relation.ispartofseries[Global Mobilities Project]en
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.subjectInequalityen
dc.subjectMediterraneanen
dc.subjectMobilityen
dc.subjectSocial network analysisen
dc.subjectTravelen
dc.subjectVisa regulationsen
dc.titleMobility hub or hollow? : cross-border travelling in the Mediterranean, 1995–2016en
dc.typeArticleen
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