La posición social y espacial en una ciudad turística. Las luchas simbólicas de Álamos, Sonora

• Main Authors: Balslev Clausen, Helene, Velázquez García, Mario Alberto
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Instituto de Investigación Social y Turismo 2010-01-01
• Series: PASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural
• Subjects: Habitus; Tourism; Capital; Migrant Americans; Mexico.
• Online Access: http://www.pasosonline.org/Publicados/8110/PS0110_4.pdf

With the perspective of Bourdieu’s social spaces we analyse a Mexican village that has transformed the tourism into its main activity due to the presence of a group of North American immigrants. The objective is to analyse how this group of immigrants through their money, lifestyle, beliefs, values and ways of organising and cooperating create a social distance (symbolic and physical) between them and the Mexicans. Using these capitals allows them to exercise certain power practices and furthermore legitimise them. Besides, these capitals define the characteristics and type of tourism that are developed in the community, the latter is related to the image that the immigrants has of the authentic Mexico.