Popular habitat and labor market: unequal urban development in El Alto (Bolivia)

Popular habitat and labor market: unequal urban development in El Alto (Bolivia)

El Alto is generally described as a homogeneous area of poverty with a population of Aymara origin. There is only preliminary information, with little systematized empirical evidence, about the unequal (and combined) urban development of the city. Hence the relevance of this research, which is inten...

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Main Author: Diaz, Mariela Paula
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Published: Revista INVI 2015
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spelling oai:ojs.revistas.uchile.cl:article-626592015-11-10T17:18:45Z Popular habitat and labor market: unequal urban development in El Alto (Bolivia) Hábitat popular y mercado laboral: El desarrollo urbano desigual de la ciudad de El Alto (Bolivia) Diaz, Mariela Paula El Alto is generally described as a homogeneous area of poverty with a population of Aymara origin. There is only preliminary information, with little systematized empirical evidence, about the unequal (and combined) urban development of the city. Hence the relevance of this research, which is intended to explore the incorporation of rural migrants into two neighborhoods of the city: “El Porvenir I”, located in the peripheral area of the city, and “16 de Julio”, located in the downtown area of El Alto. This research analyzes the period from the adoption of neoliberalism (1985) to 2012.In the first place, this research examines the access to the city in relation to the quality of dwellings and the provision of public domiciliary services. In second place, the incorporation into the labor market is analyzed in order to address the issues regarding the unequal urban development in the outskirts of El Alto.Part of the information was collected through semi-structured interviews with key actors and inhabitants of the city. Other information was collected through the implementation of a survey (non-probabilistic strategic sampling) that interviewed 100 households located in the case study neighborhoods. El Alto generalmente es descripto como un cinturón homogéneo de pobreza y de población de origen aymara. Sólo se encuentran afirmaciones incipientes, con escasa evidencia empírica sistematizada, sobre el desarrollo urbano desigual (y combinado) de la ciudad de El Alto. De aquí la pertinencia de esta investigación cuyo objetivo es analizar la inserción de los migrantes rurales en dos barrios de la ciudad de El Alto: en la zona periférica “El Porvenir I” y en el área céntrica 16 de Julio, en el período que comprende el inicio del neoliberalismo en el país (1985) hasta el año 2012. En primer lugar, se indaga sobre el acceso a la ciudad en relación a la calidad de la vivienda y la provisión de los servicios públicos domiciliarios. En segundo lugar, su inserción en el mercado laboral con el fin de abordar la problemática del desarrollo urbano desigual que se vislumbra en la periferia de El Alto. Una parte de la información fue obtenida mediante entrevistas semi-estructuradas a informantes clave y a los residentes de la ciudad; a través de la aplicación de una encuesta (muestreo estratégico no probabilístico) en los barrios bajo estudio, donde fueron seleccionados en total 100 hogares. Revista INVI 2015-09-09 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62659 Revista INVI; Vol. 30 Núm. 85 (2015); 111-145 0718-8358 0718-1299 spa https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62659/66572 https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62659/66596
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title_short Popular habitat and labor market: unequal urban development in El Alto (Bolivia)
title_full Popular habitat and labor market: unequal urban development in El Alto (Bolivia)
title_fullStr Popular habitat and labor market: unequal urban development in El Alto (Bolivia)
title_full_unstemmed Popular habitat and labor market: unequal urban development in El Alto (Bolivia)
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description El Alto is generally described as a homogeneous area of poverty with a population of Aymara origin. There is only preliminary information, with little systematized empirical evidence, about the unequal (and combined) urban development of the city. Hence the relevance of this research, which is intended to explore the incorporation of rural migrants into two neighborhoods of the city: “El Porvenir I”, located in the peripheral area of the city, and “16 de Julio”, located in the downtown area of El Alto. This research analyzes the period from the adoption of neoliberalism (1985) to 2012.In the first place, this research examines the access to the city in relation to the quality of dwellings and the provision of public domiciliary services. In second place, the incorporation into the labor market is analyzed in order to address the issues regarding the unequal urban development in the outskirts of El Alto.Part of the information was collected through semi-structured interviews with key actors and inhabitants of the city. Other information was collected through the implementation of a survey (non-probabilistic strategic sampling) that interviewed 100 households located in the case study neighborhoods.
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