Socio-spatial segregation of those born in another entity. Case study Mexicali, Baja California

Abstract

This article studies how people who were born in an entity other than Baja California are distributed in the urban sprawl of Mexicali. This in order to understand if they are segregated based on their origin and therefore their access to education, health, commerce and leisure equipment is affected. Having this information could guide city planners to equally include their residents. To this end, a cross-sectional quantitative exercise was carried out with the most recent data available. The investigation showed a slight concentration of this population to the south, mainly to the south-west, in terms of access to equipment, coverage in education and health issues, this results. But there is a moderate association in the issues of commerce and recreation with the access of the non-native population. In conclusion, the population born in another entity has the same accessibility to the facilities mentioned above. The results do not validate the initial assumption of differentiated access to urban equipment between the native and non-native population, which is encouraging in the search for a socially sustainable city.