El Colegio Mexiquense, A.C.

The research lines and fields are divided as follows:

• Centre for Social and Spatial Studies and Public Policies

  The researchers of this centre are interested in the following subjects: Municipal development: management, public services and local finances.

  • Public policies:
    • social policy and poverty;
    • welfare policies:
    • adult education policies:
    • industrial and spatial localisation policies;
    • territorial order and institutional change policies;
    • urban land policies and territorial regularisation.
  • Social and spatial studies:
    • distribution of population and regional inequalities:
    • urban processes,
    • metropolitan conformation,
    • localisation of economical activities,
    • land markets and housing in cities.

  EL COLEGIO MEXIQUENSE is the seat of the Mexican Network of Cities towards Sustainability (Red Mexicana de Ciudades hacia la Sustentabilidad).

• Centre for Social Studies

  This centre has three main areas: education, population and society and culture, whose research lines are:

  • Philosophy of education, history of education and informal education.
  • Work force.
  • Demographic change.
  • Youth and population.
  • Historical demography.
  • International migration.
  • Work, family and every day life.
  • Environmental perceptions and emigration.
  • Socioeconomic forms, ritual and cosmic vision.
  • Indigenous people, water and society.

• Centre for Historical Studies

  This research area has the task of studying and spreading the history of the municipalities, the state and the nation. Its research lines are:

  • Economical and social history.
  • History of education.
  • Pre-hispanic, colonial, modern and contemporary history.
  • Historical bibliography.
  • Study, translation and publication of pictographical sources and indigenous prose, such as pre-hispanic and colonial codices.