International migrants in Aglomeracion Gran Buenos Aires: a quantitative analysis of their spatial distribution

This article aims to study the spatial distribution of international migrants in the Aglomeracion Gran Buenos Aires (AGBA) from a quantitative methodological approach that combines a macrosocial scale, since it covers the AGBA as a whole, and a micro-spatial scale, since displays differences that occur in an intra-urban level. A statistical-cartographic analysis is performed using as a source of data the National Census of Population, Households and Housing 2010, georeferenced using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and working with the construction of thematic maps and the application of statistical indicators of spatial distribution. It concludes that the foreign population in the AGBA has developed location patterns which are related to distances and proximities built in the social field. The proposed, therefore, is to rescue the space as an essential dimension for understanding social processes, considering that it plays a fundamental role as a product and producer of the relations and conflicts that constitute the social world.