Encounters over Garbage: Tourists and Lifestyle Migrants in Mexico

Tourism Geographies

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 339-355

  Dürr, Eveline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

charity; garbage; globalization; lifestyle migration; Mazatl n; Mexico; Slum tourism; urban poverty

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; IMMIGRANT; LIFESTYLE; POVERTY; TOURISM; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; URBAN AREA;

MAZATLAN; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SINALOA;

EID: 84859750027     PISSN: 14616688     EISSN: 14701340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2012.633217     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Banks, S. 2004. Identity narratives by American and Canadian retirees in Mexico. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 19(4): 361-381.
2. Benson, M. and O'Reilly, K. 2009. Lifestyle Migration. Expectations, Aspirations and Experiences, Farnham: Ashgate.
3. Bornstein, E. 2009. The impulse of philanthropy. Cultural Anthropology, 24(4): 622-651.
4. Collom, F. C. 2004. The Dumb Gringo. How not to be one in Missions, o.O.: Xulon Press.
5. Collom, F. 2007. "The Other Mazatlán". Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QlIEGU76PY (accessed 20 January 2011)
6. Croucher, S. 2009a. The Other Side of the Fence: American Migrants in Mexico, Austin: University of Texas Press.
7. Croucher, S. 2009b. Migrants of privilege: The political transnationalism of Americans in Mexico. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 16(4): 463-491.
8. Davis, M. 2006. "Invasores de Fronteras, La Jornada, 23 Spetiembre 2006". Available at http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/09/23/ (accessed 13 January 2001)
9. Davis, M. 2008. "La Viña: Mazatlán Dump Water Distribution". Available at http://vimeo.com/3922854 (accessed 20 January 2011)
10. Domínguez-Ruvalcaba, H. and Corona, I. 2010. Gender Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border. Media Representation and Public Response, Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
11. Dowling, R. M. 2009. Slumming in New York. From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem, Urbana Champaign: University of Illinois Press.
12. Dyos, H. 1967. The slums of Victorian London. Victorian Studies, 11(1): 5-40.
13. Fortney, V. 2007. Loving orphans make his heart sing: Troupe founder 'the gringo of the hood'. Calgary Herald,: A9 February 5
14. Foster, J. 2009. "Slumdog Millionaire puts slum tourism in the spotlight". In Asia Development. A Publication of the Asian Development Bank No. 3, April. Available at http://development.asia/issue03/feature-01.asp (accessed 30 November 2010)
15. Freire-Medeiros, B. 2008. "And the favela went global: the invention of a trademark and a tourist destination". In The Global Challenge and Marginalization, Edited by: Valenca, M. M., Nel, E. and Leimgruber, W. 33-52. New York: Nova Science Publishers.
16. Freire-Medeiros, B. 2009. The favela and its touristic transits. Geoforum, 40: 580-588.
17. Friedman, L. J. and McGarvie, M. D. 2003. Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
18. Gaskell, M. S. 1990. "Introduction". In Slums, Edited by: Gaskell, M. S. 1-16. Leicester: Leicester University Press.
19. Gross, R. 2003. "Giving in America. From charity to philanthropy". In Charity, Philanthropy and Civility in American History, Edited by: Friedman, L. J. and McGarvie, M. D. 29-48. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
20. Hall, C. M. 2007. Pro-poor Tourism, Clevedon: Channel View.
21. Harvey, C. 2006. The Two Sides of Mazatlán, Mazatlán, México: DVD, Promotion Video of La Viña.
22. Heap, C. 2009. Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
23. INEGI, Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática. 2010. "Información Demográfica". Available at http://www.mazatlan.gob.mx/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1634 (accessed 10 January 2011)
24. Jaguaribe, B. and Hetherington, K. 2006. "Favela tours: Indistinct and maples representations of the real in Rio de Janeiro". In Mobile Technologies of the City, Edited by: Sheller, M. and Urry, J. 155-166. London: Routledge.
25. Janoschka, M. 2009. The contested spaces of lifestyle mobilities: Regime analysis as a tool to study political claims in Latin American retirement destinations. Die Erde, 140(3): 1-20.
26. Keese, J. R. 2011. The geography of volunteer tourism: Place matters. Tourism Geographies, 13(2): 257-279.
27. Koven, S. 2006. Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London, Princeton: University Press.
28. Lizárraga Morales, O. 2008. "Immigration and transnational practices of U.S. retirees in Mexico". A case study in Mazatlán, Sinaloa and Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur. Vol. 18. Available at http://estudiosdeldesarrollo.net/revista/rev11ing/t5.pdf (accessed 9 December 2011)
29. Lloyd, S. 2009. Charity and Poverty in England, c.1680-1820. Wild and Visionary Schemes, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
30. McIntosh, A. and Zahra, A. 2007. A cultural encounter through volunteer tourism: Towards the ideals of sustainable tourism?. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 15(5): 541-556.
31. Meschkank, J. 2010. Investigations into slum tourism in Mumbai. Poverty tourism and the tension between different constructions of reality. Geojournal, DOI: 10.1007/s10708-010-9401-7
32. Odede, K. 2010. "Slumdog tourism". In International Herald Tribune-The New York Times, 11 August.
33. Otero Young, L. M. Y. 1997. U.S. retired persons in Mexico. American Behavioral Scientist, 40(7): 914-923.
34. Palma Mora, M. 2000. La immigracion en México en la segunda mitad del siglo XX: un estudio intorductorio. Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos, 15(48): 551-586.
35. Patenostro, S. 1995. Mexico as a narco-democracy. World Policy Journal, 12(1): 41-47.
36. Porterfield, A. 2003. "Protestant missionaries: Pioneers of American philanthropy". In Charity, Philanthropy and Civility in American History, Edited by: Friedman, L. J. and McGarvie, M. D. 49-69. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
37. Raymond, E. M. and Hall, M. C. 2008. The development of cross-cultural (mis)understanding through volunteer tourism. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 16(5): 530-543.
38. Rolfes, M. 2009. Poverty tourism: Theoretical reflections and empirical findings regarding an extraordinary form of tourism. Geojournal, DOI 10.1007/s10708-009-9311-8
39. Rosenberg, E. S. 2003. "Missions to the world: Philanthropy abroad". In Charity, Philanthropy and Civility in American History, Edited by: Friedman, L. J. and McGarvie, M. D. 241-257. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
40. Scheyvens, R. 2011. Tourism and Poverty, New York: Routledge.
41. Schwartz, J. 2000. Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America's Urban Poor, 1825-2000, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
42. Secretaría de Turismo del Estado/Departamento de Enlace Tecnológico. 2008. Mazatlán: Afluencia Turística según procedencia, 2004-2008, Mazatlán, Sin., México: Secretaría de Turismo, Gobierno del Estado.
43. Stebbins, R. A. 2004. "Introduction". In Volunteering as Leisure/Leisure as Volunteering. An International Assessment, Edited by: Stebbins, R. A. and Graham, M. 1-12. Wallingford: CABI Publishing.
44. Stebbins, R. A. and Graham, M. 2004. Volunteering as Leisure/Leisure as Volunteering. An International Assessment, Wallingford: CABI Publishing.
45. Stokes, E. M. 1990. Ethnography of a social border: The case of an American retirement community in Mexico. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 5(2): 169-182.
46. Sunil, T. S., Rojas, V. and Bradley, D. E. 2007. United States' international retirement migration: The reasons for retiring to the environs of Lake Chapala, Mexico. Ageing & Society, 27(4): 489-510.
47. Truly, D. 2002. International retirement migration and tourism along the Lake Chapala Riviera: Developing a matrix of retirement migration behaviour. Tourism Geographies, 4(3): 261-281.
48. Vila, P. 2005. Border Identifications. Narratives of Religion, Gender, and Class on the U.S.-Mexico Border, Austin: University of Texas Press.
49. Watling, M. 2008. Natürlich übernatürlich. Die Geschichte der Vineyard-Bewegung, Witten: Brockhaus Verlag im SCM-Verlag.
50. Wearing, S. 2001. Volunteer Tourism. Experiences that Make a Difference, Wallingford: CABI Publishing.
51. Weiner, E. 2008. "Slum visits: Tourism or voyeurism?". In New York Times-Travel, 9 March.
52. Weiss, R. 2010. "The discarded people of the Mexican Riviera". Available at http://vimeo.com/12283364 (accessed 10 January 2011).
53. Zamora, L. 2007. "Eligen extranjeros a Mazatlán para residir". In Noroeste, October.