Abstract

MATOSSIAN, Brenda. Derecho a la ciudad en San Carlos de Bariloche: inserción residencial y política de migrantes. Rev. Univ. geogr. [online]. 2015, vol.24, n.1, pp. 11-39. ISSN 1852-4265.

Abstract The migrants insertion in nowadays complex and unequal cities is a dynamic and multidimensional process. The right to the city, developed by Lefebvre, is an approach that contributes to the study of the migrants' insertion problems since it allows the articulation between the residential and political dimensions in the city and neighbourhoods. The aim of this paper is to analyse the right to the city in international migrants in a particular context of profound socio-spatial inequalities, San Carlos de Bariloche city. Geo-demographic quantitative techniques are used to study of socioeconomic and residential insertion. Likewise, local documents and regulations related to citizen participation and interviews to key informants are analysed. Migrants have inserted in San Carlos de Bariloche and have experienced different kinds of inequalities. The right to the city for these migrants was limited at an early stage by their foreign status, but their condition has progressed in recent years as a result of a more inclusive electoral municipal policy, which has improved the citizens' legitimacy and their right to the city.

Keywords : Migrants; Socio-spatial Inequalities; Citizen Participation; Citizen Legitimacy; Right to the City.