ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on certain immigrant groups that occupy different positions in the socio-economic hierarchy and exhibit various rates of residential mobility. It takes into account two different types of residential mobility. Firstly, the internal relocations of immigrants, either from rural areas or from other parts of the metropolitan region. Secondly, the recent arrivals from the countries of origin; although these new arrivals do not fall into the category of internal mobility. The chapter also investigates the preconditions of immigrants' residential mobility in the metropolitan area of Athens by examining the spatial distribution, the socio-economic position and the housing conditions of those who move via those who do not. Hence the study of residential mobility also reveals that despite certain similarities, different immigrant groups follow different paths of spatial integration, that being an aspect of increasing diversity of the immigrant population in Athens.
