Ethnic centralities and their dispersion in the great Buenos Aires: the case of the Bolivian community

SASSONE, SUSANA MARIA; CORTES, GENEVIEVE

New York

Seminario; Seminar Latin- American migrations, patterns of settlement and transnational dynamics. Perspectives from Europe, the United States and South America; 2012

Transitions UMI (Unité Mixte Internationale 3199) Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, CNRS/NYU Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, Paris, France) - New York University

Buenos Aires is one of the gateways cities in the South. This metropolis is one of the most populated in the world. It was outlined for his European profile, during more than one century, by both the architecture and the strong presence of the European migration, especially, Italian and Spanish. With the changes in global migration patterns, since thirty years ago Buenos Aires has been transformed in the city that hosts the first communities of Paraguayans, Bolivians and Peruvians outside their respective countries. Their increasing presence contributes to the definition of ethnic residential geographies in the process of metropolitan sprawl. The Bolivian case refers to a discussion of the various types of immigrants? urban centralities in large metropolitan gateways. This international immigration develops spatial strategies of multi-location as dispersion of multiple cores of concentration, under the logic of functional hierarchy. This group presents an increase visibility in the urban landscape and the geography research can explain the creation of residential areas by the way of immigrants? neighborhoods, the specific modes of urban economic integration and, finally, the configuration of ethnic shopping areas. Then, we discuss the construction of multi-sited central places in the metropolitan territory, in which the shaft passes through a logical explanation of peripheries geographies.