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BARSALLO ALVARADO, Gabisel. Urban mobility and personal safety as factors related to the decision of dropping out from university. Universidad y Sociedad [online]. 2021, vol.13, n.5, pp. 242-247.  Epub 02-Out-2021. ISSN 2218-3620.

Urban development of Latin American cities has an unplanned and heterogeneous growth that stands out and feeds the social and economic inequalities that its citizens face every day when traveling to their productive destinations. The objective of this paper is to discuss the progressive evolution of the metropolitan transformation of Panama City and its peripheries, its residential and urban mobility, and the effect these have on university dropouts. Urban mobility is related to the displacement exercised by the people of a city and is directly linked to the improvement of their quality of life. As the city expands, university students assess their priorities in life, including continuing their education or dropping out, in relation to residential and urban mobility issues that highlight difficulties such as transportation, distances and personal safety. From the methodological point of view, this paper uses a qualitative approach. Through an empirical analysis of in-depth interviews carried out with active senior university students at the University of Panama, I seek to explore, describe and give some perspective to the intention of dropping out from university as connected to transportation, distances and personal safety matters.

Palavras-chave : Urban mobility; residential mobility; university dropout; transportation; distances; personal safety.

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