To Move or Not to Move? Social Exclusion, Accessibility and Daily Mobility among the Low-income Population in Santiago, Chile

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5904842
AutoresSebastián Ureta (0000-0003-3169-4992, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen3
Número2
Páginas269-289
Fecha de publicación2008-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMobilities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1745-0101 • E-ISSN: 1745-011X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17450100802095338
OpenAlexW2010087315
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas72
Referencias citadas39

Changes in the patterns of quotidian physical mobility of the population are at the very centre of transformations in contemporary urban life. The city of Santiago, Chile is no exception to this trend. But these changes do not affect the whole population in the same way. This paper is based on a case study of a low‐income population group and how their situation of social exclusion interferes with their patterns of everyday mobility. In order to do so we describe in‐depth their everyday mobility in two central interrelated aspects: where and how these individuals travel during workdays and weekends. We conclude that in contemporary Santiago the low degrees of motility of low income population constitute one of the main ways in which contemporary social exclusion is enacted in everyday practice

Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Everyday life · Geographic mobility · Geography · Low income · Political science · Population · Social exclusion · Social mobility · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Demography · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban Transport and Accessibility