Migrations and sociospatial processes in the Pelourinho-Santo Antônio Axis, Salvador, State of Bahia

Abstract

This article aims to clarify the relationships between urban spatial processes and migrations in an area of the city of Salvador that we call Pelourinho-Santo Antônio Axis (PSA). Our purpose was to show that the different urban spatial processes that are usually portrayed in closed schemes in the city itself can be observed in a worldwide scale. To achieve this, studies about migrations in Salvador (State of Bahia) were carried out and related to the city’s urban sociospatial processes from its foundation to the current times. We found that the PSA is a center that has been receiving immigrants since the origin of the city. As time went by, new flows were gradually configured between Salvador and the world, generating a complex population mosaic in the studied area, with ethnic contributions from all the continents.