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The camp in relation to the city: informality and residential mobility of the inhabitants of Alto Hospicio

Abstract

Summary The camps are usually observed as a unit in itself, islands within cities, delimited areas of urban exclusion. This vision sets urban informality as a self-contained settlement. The camps in Haut-Hospicio (Northern Chile) have played a central role in the development of the city by tensioning this static vision. They are not isolated units but are located in the centre of urban operation. Through narratives that show the residential mobility of their inhabitants, we develop a relational perspective, which proposes to identify the ways in which the camp is produced by a pattern of interdependent relations with the city to which they are part. In the case of Alto Hospicio, informality, vulnerability and precariousness expand beyond the camp ‘object’. Three family stories are presented which help to develop a more focused analysis of the relationship between camps and urban space, as well as to understand the development of a fast-growing and vibrant changing city such as Alto Hospicio. The article argues that the Haut-Hospicio case calls for a rethink of the concept and treatment of urban informality beyond the camps, promoting the opening of new theoretical and empirical questions in Chilean urban studies to fully understand the experiences of people building their place in the city under the current (neoliberal) model of urban development.

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