Segregación Social y Políticas Públicas: Un Estudio sobre el Turismo en la isla Mexcaltitlán, México

The aim of this paper is to discuss about the creation of spaces for segregation as a result of the prospects of public policies. Specifically, we observed the inconsistencies of the Magical Towns Program from the experience of intervention of tourism in the island Mexcaltitlande Uribe by analyzing the basis for public policies based on equality of opportunities and conditional assistance and focusing. The research, which is based on literature review, secondary data and direct observation, identified a process of political segregation formalizing the non-governmental intervention, in addition to an evasion of cultural heritage. In place of an allegedly articulated action by the State, the island was rejected (sobrepenalizada) by its own terms of social, economic and structural vulnerability.