Migration In Mexico City’s East Historic-Centre

Abstract

Migration is a well-known world phenomenon associated to mankind’s development itself. Today it is out of control both inter as well as intra-urban. Different central attraction and rejection socioeconomic and environmental variables support and motivate such phenomenon in many of the most important world human settlements. This situation motivates an urban core demographic shrinkage and peripheral horizontal expansion of cities that invades and destroys very significant natural areas. In the context of a statistical analysis in terms of frequencies on the Eastern sector of Mexico City’s historic-centre, the most important variables that explain the phenomenon cited before were estimated, from an in-situ survey. Results coming from residents with seniority in housing residence of 10 or more years indicate that migration in terms
of its attraction component (free will to stay in a highly deprived geographic area) is
barely just “regular”.