DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL AND URBAN INTEGRATION. Proposal for the analysis of self-produced settlements in Greater Valparaiso, Chile.

Abstract

The research arises from the considerable increase in self-produced settlements in Chile between 2011 and 2021, and the scarce evidence on the results in social and urban integration of the response strategies implemented by public institutions and affected communities. This article presents a theoretical review of the concept of Social and Urban Integration and determines its main dimensions and categories. The research is of a documentary type and is developed based on two axes of theoretical analysis: origin, evolution and approaches to social and urban integration, and social theory on the creation and reproduction of social systems. The results allow us to affirm that the transition from a context of segregation and exclusion to that of social and urban integration only occurs to the extent that there is a balance between the dimensions of integration: sociocultural, socioeconomic, socio-spatial and socio-political. Each of them presents a set of categories that allow this concept to be operationalized when analyzing and evaluating the results of actions carried out by public institutions and the communities themselves in response to self-produced settlements.

Keywords: Self-produced settlements, social and urban integration