MOBILITY AND VULNERABILITY IN THE SCHOOL-TO-WORK TRANSITION OF RURAL YOUTH IN MEXICO
Por:
Salas Quintanal, Hernan, Gonzalez-Fuente, Inigo, Hernandez Flores, Daniel
Publicada:
1 nov 2022
Categoría:
Education
Resumen:
In the rural towns of central Mexico, one of the most decisive
consequences of the slow deagrarianization of the countryside is the
fact that its youngest population have had their access to educational
possibilities and their economic income curtailed, whilst they are also
the protagonists of an intense dynamic of displacements between their
place of residence and medium-sized and large metropolitan areas.
Current social-anthropological scholarship links this kind of mobility
to strategies for survival in precarious and vulnerable conditions which
lead to a significant diversification of occupied spaces. Within this
context, the aim of this article is to identify and understand the
dynamics of geographical mobility in the school-to-work transition among
rural youngsters in seasonal conditions of social-economic hardship. The
research took place between 2013 and 2020, using an anthropology-based
methodology with fieldwork which included using techniques to record
multi-sited ethnographic information involving people who move on a
daily basis. Its goal was to develop a case study that allowed for the
analysis of the data within its social context. Research findings
allowed us to reflect upon how, in contexts of structural precarity,
young people's prioritizing of seeking varied and distant paid work,
together with their subsequent early leaving and intermittent attendance
of school, add up to a cumulative path of disadvantages which are learnt
and socialized at the home of origin. Within this framework, daily
mobility becomes an integral component of such adverse life-paths, thus
co-producing conditions of high vulnerability for rural young people in
very heterogeneous but constant ways.
Filiaciones:
Salas Quintanal, Hernan:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
Gonzalez-Fuente, Inigo:
Univ Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Hernandez Flores, Daniel:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
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