The social and spatial position in a tourist city. The symbolic struggles of Alamos, Sonora
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Habitus;, Tourism, Capital, Migrant Americans, MexicoAbstract
With the perspective of Bourdieu’s social spaces we analyse a Mexican village that has trans- formed the tourism into its main activity due to the presence of a group of North American immigrants. The objective is to analyse how this group of immigrants through their money, lifestyle, beliefs, values and ways of organising and cooperating create a social distance (symbolic and physical) between them and the Mexicans. Using these capitals allows them to exercise certain power practices and furthermore legitimise them. Besides, these capitals define the characteristics and type of tourism that are developed in the community, the latter is related to the image that the immigrants has of the authentic Mexico.
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