Abstract

CAPRON, Guénola. The Other as Threat and the Internalization of Difference in Suburban Gated Communities in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area. Sociológica (Méx.) [online]. 2016, vol.31, n.89, pp.45-68. ISSN 2007-8358.

This article analyzes how the residents of a gated community and the poor living on the other side of the wall, who often work for the former, perceive each other. The author seeks to show how, in a context marked by insecurity, the unequal relationship between workers and employers is structured by the power exercised by the latter over the former, spawning stigmatization and self-devaluation of the workers and how this produces social and spatial distancing. The article reflects on mistrust and fear, conditions endemic to the prevailing "liquid modernity" and that characterize relations between the poor and the rich in contemporary society.

Keywords : otherness; stranger; insecurity; fear; inequality; social representations; gated communities.

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