Living Conditions and Discrimination Towards Indigenous People in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico

For over half a century Mérida has received indigenous migratory flows from towns and communities adjacent to its urban periphery as well as from other states of the country, flows that in the last decade have led to a multilingual area with speakers of maya, chol, zapotec, mixe and tzotzil, althoug...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Gracia, María Amalia, Horbath, Jorge Enrique
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:México
Institución:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Estudios Sociológicos
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.estudiossociologicos.colmex.mx:article/1666
Acceso en línea:https://estudiossociologicos.colmex.mx/index.php/es/article/view/1666
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:: urban indigenous people
discrimination
indigenous rights
indígenas urbanos
discriminación
derechos indígenas
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Sumario:For over half a century Mérida has received indigenous migratory flows from towns and communities adjacent to its urban periphery as well as from other states of the country, flows that in the last decade have led to a multilingual area with speakers of maya, chol, zapotec, mixe and tzotzil, although the predominant language is Spanish. Through the production of primary sources of information generated from qualitative techniques and census data, the article analyzes the living conditions of indigenous groups in a city that perpetuates the historical conditions of segregation and exclusion and shows some of the ways in which ethnic and racial discrimination is expressed in different social spaces, as well as the perception that indigenous and non-indigenous people from different social sectors have of it.