Publicación:

Implicaciones socio jurídicas y ambientales del crecimiento de asentamientos irregulares en Barrancabermeja: Caso “La Bendición de Dios”

Resumen

The growth of irregular settlements in Barrancabermeja is a problem that has affected this municipality, today a special district, for a long time, since its expansion has been the product of a significant number of invasions. In this context, the now known La Bendición de Dios neighborhood emerged, in the district of Barrancabermeja, which experiences a social problem as a result of its creation, far from any Territorial Ordering Plan, becoming a place where there is poverty, marginalization and a latent danger of all kinds of insecurity for its population. The present monograph has the purpose of making an analysis of the existing problems there, from the legal, the social and the geographical, in its nature as an irregular settlement, with all its socioeconomic and cultural characteristics. For this purpose, a research with a descriptive qualitative approach was carried out, for which a field work was carried out in which information gathering tools such as focus groups, interviews, surveys were used, in addition to applying phenomenological, hermeneutical, inductive-deductive methods and systematic. It was found that the population lives in growing insecurity due to the geographical characteristics of the settlement, due to the precarious conditions in which they live, economically, educationally, socially and culturally, since the legal provisions that must govern these have been breached. conglomerates.