Migrants, Minorities, Belongings and Citizenship. Glocalization and ...

2.2.6. Mobility of Bodies – Geographical Mobility
The respondents were asked to respond to three items measuring their degree of
mobility between (1) neighborhoods in their residence town, (2) different towns in their
residence country, and (3) other countries. All the three variables were measured along
an ordinal Likert-scale with categorical values from 1 to 7 (1=no mobility, 7=several
times a month). In order to inspect the associations between these three types of
geographical mobility, a CATPCA-procedure was used with ranking discretization.
Table 8. Components of Geographical Mobility Patterns
Dimension
1 2
Mobility between
neighborhoods
,889 -,303
Mobility between towns ,920 -,154
Mobility between countries ,465 ,884
Explained variance (%) 61,78 29,88
1 Variable Principal Normalization used.
2. 2-dimension solution imposed.
3. Ranking dicretization used.
4. Total explained variance is 91,66% (rounded).
As illustrated in Table 8, the CATPCA-procedure generated two dimensions, which
distinguish between two types of mobility. Dimension 1 represents respondents’ general
mobility level, where inter-neighborhood (local) mobility within the town of residence and
inter-city (domestic) mobility within the country of residence is dominant. Dimension 2,
on the other hand, distinguishes between international (cross-country) and
local/domestic types of mobility.
In Figure 9, the horizontal axis is the first dimension from the CATPCA-analysis (local and
domestic mobility). The perpendicular axis is the second dimension (cross-country
mobility). The number of the cases in Figure 9 may seem less than the number of the
cases included in the analysis. This is due to the many cases overlapping on certain
coordinates. In fact, only 3 cases were excluded because of missing data. As Figure 9
illustrates, there is a clear line that separates between those who are primarily mobile
across countries and those who are not.
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