Caring for the ageing territory: demographic ageing and territorial marginality in Chile
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Chile, Demographic ageing, Territorial marginality, Lagging zonesAbstract
Demographic ageing poses important challenges for the care of people and the places where they live, especially in the case of territories that are already experiencing processes of marginalisation. In countries of the Global North, demographic ageing is a process that has been observed for some time, in addition to the demographic decline that is already affecting marginalised areas in different countries. On the contrary, ageing is an emerging phenomenon in different countries of the Global South and especially in Latin America. Based on these premises, the article proposes to analyse the extent to which demographic ageing contributes to determining a condition of territorial marginality also in the context of the Global South. The analysis concentrates on the case of Chile and focuses on census data at the national level to detect those communes with a high presence of older people and a decrease in the number of inhabitants, comparing them with the communes that national policies define as lagging. The case of Chile, an unequal country with emerging dynamics of demographic ageing, allows us to analyse to what extent the presence of an increasingly older population is related to pre-existing conditions of territorial marginality. Ageing and demographic decline account for a geography of marginality that complements and expands traditional policy definitions, posing new challenges for the care of marginal territories and populations.
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