Amenity/Lifestyle Migration in the Chilean Andes: Understanding the Views of "The Other" and Its Effects on Integrated Community Development Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2017 by the authors. Within the context of domestic amenity/lifestyle migration, we are interested in understanding the way local rural residents and migrants: (1) view each other; and (2) how those views affect an integrated community development. Using alterity theory as a guiding framework, we engaged in a qualitative study to examine such views and their effects along the lines of three axes: an epistemological (what people know about the other), an axiological (how people value the other), and a praxeological (how people interact with the other) one in the Chilean community of Malalcahuello. Findings suggests that, overall, both types of residents know little of the other, have and constantly reproduce negative value judgments of the other, and relate only in mundane non-significant ways. We provide explanations of how these relate to the reported diminished community development efforts in town.

published proceedings

  • SUSTAINABILITY

author list (cited authors)

  • Matarrita-Cascante, D., Zunino, H., & Sagner-Tapia, J.

citation count

  • 10

complete list of authors

  • Matarrita-Cascante, David||Zunino, Hugo||Sagner-Tapia, Johanna

publication date

  • September 2017

publisher