Residential trajectories and daily mobility: The four inhabitant figures of the ‘’Pays du Vignoble nantais’’
The abundant literature on modes of dwelling has shed light on the many complex socio-spatial changes at work in peri-urban areas. We propose here to update this approach by reconsidering the systemic connection between people’s residential trajectory and the forms taken by their daily mobility. After analysing the track record of 64 adults, we used factor analysis to obtain a synthetic typology of forms of rootedness. Our study reveals a predictable divide between “newcomers’’, often of urban origin and highly mobile in their daily lives, and the less mobile, more rooted native population. However, a second “inverse’’ split also emerged, embodied by two other types: “newcomers looking for local connections’’; and the “mobile rooted’’. We can thus show that the relation between residential trajectory and daily mobility is far from automatic. Rather, these two elements are combined and acting jointly to produce and differentiate modes of dwelling.