Resumen

DAVILA VALDES, Claudia. Lifestyle migration and appropriation of space, toward a gentrification. Iztapalapa. Rev. cienc. soc. humanid. [online]. 2022, vol.43, n.93, pp.129-154.  Epub 08-Ago-2022. ISSN 2007-9176.  https://doi.org/10.28928/ri/932022/atc5/davilavaldesc.

In the last 20 years, new foreign residents from industrialized countries have settled in the northern part of Merida’s Downtown. This is an international phenomenon known as lifestyle migration. The objective is to analyze the daily life of these residents in the study area to observe the process of appropriation of urban space. This is carried out through symbolic identification and through the daily actions that take place in the area. The arrival of the lifestyle migrants has involved socio-spatial transformations that have gentrified the area where news and formers residents share walls and streets but with a clear social distance. This qualitative research is supported by semi-structured interviews with different informants, by field work in the study area, by different INEGI databases, by hemerographic information and by a digital ethnography of the different groups of expatriates that exist in the social network Facebook.

Palabras llave : geographical identity; daily life; social distance; Downtown; Merida, Yucatan.

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