ARICA/TACNA: LOS CIRCUITOS ECONÓMICOS DE UN COMPLEJO URBANO TRANSFRONTERIZO

Abstract

The emergence of trans-border urban complexes in Latin America places the study of their economic circuits in the foreground. The binomial Arica / Tacna shows a variety of economic circuits, generally marked by informality, that in the main are resolved locally. This poses a heuristic challenge in terms of how these circuits generate transfers of values from one part to the other, giving rise to a process of unequal exchange favorable to the Chilean city. The article focuses on the sociological analysis of three circuits: the purchase of Peruvian labor force by Chilean capital, the so-called ant trade and Chilean consumption in Tacna.