No dia 29 de Abril, Alda Azevedo (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa) será a oradora convidada do seminário organizado pelos Grupos de Investigação LIFE & SHIFT,, com o tema Between opportunity and constraint: Residential (im)mobility and migration in the Lisbon and Porto metropolitan areas.

A partir das 11h, na Sala 3 do ICS-ULisboa e online.

Abstract: This paper examines who moves and who stays in Portugal’s two largest metropolitan areas, Lisbon and Porto, using 2021 Census microdata for six municipalities. By analysing recent movers relative to their residence at the end of 2019, the study identifies the determinants of residential (im)mobility within a Southern European housing regime characterised by high homeownership, limited rental supply, and growing affordability pressures. Results from multinomial logistic regression models show that mobility is strongly associated with age, education, and marital status, while migration background emerges as the main dividing line between movers and stayers. Foreign-born and foreign-national residents dominate among recent movers, confirming that international migration has become a central driver of metropolitan demographic change. Yet, the results also reveal that mobility often reflects relative privilege within a highly constrained housing system, while immobility increasingly signals structural barriers to residential change. In Portugal, as in other Southern European contexts, residential (im)mobility thus operates simultaneously as a mechanism of social differentiation and a symptom of the broader transformations reshaping urban housing systems