The returned “others”. Invisibility and exclusion in the Mexican education system: ethnographic data from Oaxaca

The current diaspora returning from the United States to Mexico is made up of a significant number of Mexican children of school age. However, although having new and different educational needs, this childhood is subjected to strong processes of disregard and exclusion in the Mexican educational sy...

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Autor: Quecha Reyna, Citlali
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Anales de Antropología
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/71411
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/antropologia/article/view/71411
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Childhood
migration
school (re)insertion
discrimination
United States-Mexico
Costa Chica
México
xenofobia
infancia
extranjería
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Sumario:The current diaspora returning from the United States to Mexico is made up of a significant number of Mexican children of school age. However, although having new and different educational needs, this childhood is subjected to strong processes of disregard and exclusion in the Mexican educational system. The objective of this work is to analyze how these processes are concatenated in the schools of the State of Oaxaca and what repercussions they have on these children. For this, a qualitative methodology of anthropological field work carried out between the years 2018 and 2019 used different ethnographic techniques to obtain data: participant and non-participant observation, semi-structured interviews and informal conversations. The main findings point to the existence of invisibility processes of returned children in the macro, meso and micro structures of the educational system that, correspondingly, cause their exclusion in the same structures.