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

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. (A)

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• Authors:
  • URETA, S
• Publication Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Mobilities
  • Issue Number: v3(n2)p269-289
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISSN: 1745-0101
  • EISSN: 1745-011X
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rmob20

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Externalities; Income; Mobility; Motor vehicles; Networks; Ownership; Public transit; Transportation; Travel time
• Geographic Terms: Chile
• ITRD Terms: 9139: Accessibility; 8022: Chile; 256: Income; 697: Journey time; 9105: Mobility (pers); 1154: Network (transport); 744: Public transport; 215: Social cost; 315: Vehicle ownership
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Finance; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01104770
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Jul 17 2008 1:21PM