Abstract

RUIZ ROJAS, Edwin Giovanny. Configuration of the Metropolization between Bogota and Soacha from the Informal Trade. Rev. Ciudades Estados Política [online]. 2020, vol.7, n.1, pp.31-45.  Epub Dec 13, 2021. ISSN 2462-9103.

This study aims to recognize the practices and circumstances in which is developed the informal work that drives the metropolization processes between Soacha and Bogotá. For this purpose, the study reviews the population growth in the municipality of Soacha, where there is an expansion of the informal commercial sector. Understanding these processes is important taking in account that the accelerated growth of the municipality has led to a lack of knowledge about informal trade and its particularities, which has trigged in uncoordinated strategies among the informal workers, institutions and the population itself for guarantee the rights and duties of each of the parts.

Therefore, the work is developed from two axes: on one hand, it shows the research advances according to three categories: 1) the population growth of Soacha that seeks the facilities to settle in the municipality; 2) the informality as a subsistence and protection way against the inequalities of welfare that the municipality offers in terms of housing and access to work and 3) the metropolization focused on determine relationships, of dependence or not, that are established between the parts involved. On the other hand, it is carried out a fieldwork that seeks to recognize the convenience of informal trade in certain parts, the origin of the workers, the behaviors around the organization and appropriation of the space, the institutional place in view of the phenomenon and, finally, the dynamics that lead the informality to become a fundamental axis of the metropolization from the same population.

Keywords : informal labor opportunity; population in Colombia; economic relationship; Soacha; metropolitan zones.

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