SOCIAL GROUP, 22nd of April 2011

Visit to Teide. Hiking trip.

Today we have not seen any important social geography process itself, so we have discussed about what we will like to focus on the upcoming days, collecting all the ideas we have.

The main idea we have discussed is migration, concretely about people coming, immigration. We want to know where, how and why they are coming from, how they are organizing themselves and if they are adopting the local culture and habits, and how they are distribute in the islands. We are interested in their perceptions of the Canary Islands, and whether this place is only a getaway to the European Union or not.

Also, we have been discussing about the spatial structure of social groups. In that sense, today we ride through an altitude profile where we were able to see the changes in the land use and landscape. It is interesting how the rapid change of the economic system (from agriculture to tourism) has triggered many social processes; among them we may mention the displacement and gentrification, not only in cities, but in the whole territory.

As it can be seen, nowadays we are coming up with many interesting ideas. What we are sure about is that it would be interesting to analyze both quantitative and even better, qualitative data. It is therefore difficult to focus on one idea, also due to we do not see what is happening in Gran Canaria, where we will carry out our field work.