Migrant movements, socio-cultural spaces and acculturation processus

Abstract

The author centers his remarks on migrant movements, and more specially concerning the acculturation processus among migrant workers, upon the concept of space, and he does it by two reasons. First because every migrant movement implies some changes in the relation between migrants and space, here understood as geographic space full of socio-cultural meanings; as a matter of fact, migrations establish a relation between two spaces, as they create a relation space articulating two spaces, functionally dependent. The other reason concerns the fact of existing several approach perspectives for the migrant phenomenon: demographers, sociologists, geographers and economists have a tendency to desintégrate this object of knowledge according to so many «points of view» and loose the sense of the phenomenon totality easily. Then one feels the need of an integrated analysis as to migrations. Thus an ecological approach, for example, appealing to a multidimensional perspective seems to be suitable.