Trajectories of social and urban mobility: students in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

Abstract

By adopting a critical approach to traditional forms that analyze mobility based on territorial movement from home to work, the present contribution argues that this process is much more complex and requires a qualitative approach, which does not focus only on origin and destination and moves away from the quantitative view, which prevents to identify its totality. Based on the analysis of the mobility dynamics of a group of academic workers from the Morelos campus of UNAM, we present results of studies whose theoretical framework proposes that mobility is different if we consider age groups, social sectors, professional conditions, and forms of access to the territory, with different urban and metropolitan behaviors, constituting new approaches to the theme.

social, labor, residential, and daily mobility; trajectories