Along the Rural and the Urban. Experiences of Territorial Mobility from a Historical Perspective (Argentina, 1930-2010)

Abstract

In this article we analyze the rural mobilities that go through and shape the socio-educational trajectories of young people and adults who study and/or live in a suburban neighborhood of Buenos Aires (Argentina) from an analytical approach that is based on the contributions of migration and mobility studies, as well as ethnography. For this, we built a case study on the Carlos Mugica neighborhood, also known as Ejército de los Andes and Fuerte Apache, which allows us to get closer to the multiple rural mobilities that cross and affect its past and present. Among the results of the research, it is possible to point out that: rural mobilities diversify and become more heterogeneous, both due to their characteristics and temporalities and to their historical evolution; the experience of the urban is traversed by a previous experience of the rural that is still latent in the city and affects the ways of inhabiting it; the movement implies the possibility of developing an attentive look at the transformations of the places along which it unfolds; and, finally, that school experiences appear as an important reference, both because of the opportunities it offers and because of the tensions and markings that are experienced there.