Les classes populaires aussi quittent Bruxelles. Une analyse de la périurbanisation des populations à bas revenus

Residential movements from the territory of the Brussels-Capital Region to suburban municipalities in Flanders and Wallonia have usually been studied from the angle of the middle classes. However, today, 30 % of people who leave the Region to live elsewhere in Belgium are part of the working classes...

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Main Author: Sarah De Laet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles 2018-03-01
Series:Brussels Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/brussels/1630
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description Residential movements from the territory of the Brussels-Capital Region to suburban municipalities in Flanders and Wallonia have usually been studied from the angle of the middle classes. However, today, 30 % of people who leave the Region to live elsewhere in Belgium are part of the working classes. The urban working classes are subject to dual pressure: social, on the one hand, with the destructuring of the salary model, the shortage of jobs and economic insecurity; and spatial, on the other hand, in particular due to the increase in the cost of housing in the city. Faced with this pressure, certain working-class households have chosen to move outside the Brussels-Capital Region. Following the works which drew attention to these processes of “modest suburbanisation” in particular in France, this article focuses on the significance of this phenomenon in the case of Brussels. It also highlights the places of destination of the working-class households which leave the central working-class neighbourhoods of Brussels. From the point of view of the latter, the movements towards the municipalities on the nearby outskirts or other cities result in a sort of social and spatial selection with significant implications for the places they are leaving.
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spelling doaj.art-2a0415d42ed84e4e88c65c1681e526662022-12-22T01:23:48ZengUniversité Saint-Louis BruxellesBrussels Studies2031-02932018-03-0110.4000/brussels.1630Les classes populaires aussi quittent Bruxelles. Une analyse de la périurbanisation des populations à bas revenusSarah De LaetResidential movements from the territory of the Brussels-Capital Region to suburban municipalities in Flanders and Wallonia have usually been studied from the angle of the middle classes. However, today, 30 % of people who leave the Region to live elsewhere in Belgium are part of the working classes. The urban working classes are subject to dual pressure: social, on the one hand, with the destructuring of the salary model, the shortage of jobs and economic insecurity; and spatial, on the other hand, in particular due to the increase in the cost of housing in the city. Faced with this pressure, certain working-class households have chosen to move outside the Brussels-Capital Region. Following the works which drew attention to these processes of “modest suburbanisation” in particular in France, this article focuses on the significance of this phenomenon in the case of Brussels. It also highlights the places of destination of the working-class households which leave the central working-class neighbourhoods of Brussels. From the point of view of the latter, the movements towards the municipalities on the nearby outskirts or other cities result in a sort of social and spatial selection with significant implications for the places they are leaving.http://journals.openedition.org/brussels/1630metropolitan areapopulationsocial inequalities
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Les classes populaires aussi quittent Bruxelles. Une analyse de la périurbanisation des populations à bas revenus
Brussels Studies
metropolitan area
population
social inequalities
title Les classes populaires aussi quittent Bruxelles. Une analyse de la périurbanisation des populations à bas revenus
title_full Les classes populaires aussi quittent Bruxelles. Une analyse de la périurbanisation des populations à bas revenus
title_fullStr Les classes populaires aussi quittent Bruxelles. Une analyse de la périurbanisation des populations à bas revenus
title_full_unstemmed Les classes populaires aussi quittent Bruxelles. Une analyse de la périurbanisation des populations à bas revenus
title_short Les classes populaires aussi quittent Bruxelles. Une analyse de la périurbanisation des populations à bas revenus
title_sort les classes populaires aussi quittent bruxelles une analyse de la periurbanisation des populations a bas revenus
topic metropolitan area
population
social inequalities
url http://journals.openedition.org/brussels/1630
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