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The spatial mark of migration in eastern Tijuana. Notes on urban growth and exclusion in a (un) orderly city

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No. 61 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5370.2021.61791

Abstract

Tijuana's benchmark is to be a city of migrants, who arrived looking for better living conditions, and that the constant arrival of outsiders has made it a disorganized city in terms of its urban growth. The interest of this text is to address how the growth of the city has been and how it has been organized through different actors, individuals, groups and institutions, for which I am located in the eastern area, a space that concentrates the largest number of inhabitants in Tijuana, and it is also the point where its growth has been directed since 1980. To articulate the axes of the text, the case of the ethnic-migrant population is presented, due to the fact that they have intervened in the expansion towards the east, and of the In the same way, they form a group that participates in the organizational mechanisms (of the government and political leaders) to occupy land, and they are also subject to exclusion both due to their origin and the place where they live. The methodology used is qualitative, and documentary to a lesser extent. The results of this research suggest that Tijuana has been permanently organized in terms of urban growth, by different participations and that the State has delegated responsibilities to its inhabitants, exalting their organizational capacity. In the case of ethnic groups, prioritizing their community well-being, and their responses in precarious contexts (including those related to housing), has earned them a stigmatization in the city that combines racism and place of living.

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Ethic migration, México, Tijuana, urban growth.

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Urbalejo Castorena, O. L. (2021). The spatial mark of migration in eastern Tijuana. Notes on urban growth and exclusion in a (un) orderly city. Investigaciones Geográficas, (61), 44–56. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5370.2021.61791
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