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The joint analysis of individual or family strategies of daily and residential mobility -which is hereby proposed- aims at better understanding both processes, in a context where the home appears not only as an origin or a destination but also as a resource for mobility. This approach allows the observation of the eventual substitution or complementation effects between both areas -daily and residential-, that is to say, when daily travels compensate or, on the contrary, follows the residential mobility pattern. The paper analyzes the integration of the multiple dimensions of mobility, in search for key principles through which meaning is conveyed at the same time by the relationship with the territory, the decisions related to the extension and intensity of mobility, as well as life projects and ethical values. Thus, from the study of poor workers of the far suburb of Paris, we set the bases to discuss its replicability to the case of Santiago of Chile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is written in three parts and a conclusion. In the first part, a reflection on the state of the art thoughts about the center-periphery ideas is developed. The second part shows how these thoughts could be applied in understanding regional integration processes in general and within the European Union in particular. The third part focuses on the multilevel governance issues and proposes an analysis of the French and German sub-national units at the European Union. As a political process, regional integration is far from bringing only benefits to the parts involved in it. The disparities emerge in multiple levels and they are not confined to national borders. The center-periphery dichotomy is a fact in geo-economical terms, although not in accordance with ideological conceptions as those set up by Prebisch. In understanding integration processes, the multilevel governance perspective seems to be a more adequate point of view, from which one cannot avoid investigating the role of sub-national units. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]