RURAL-URBAN MOBILITY AMONG INDIGENOUS YOUNG PEOPLE PROFESSIONALIZED IN COMMUNITY HIGHER EDUCATION PROPOSALS IN MEXICO

la mirada de egresados y egresadas de universidades comunitarias en Oaxaca, México

Abstract

The proposal presents the case of indigenous professional students graduated from the Instituto Superior Intercultural Ayuuk (ISIA), located in the community of Jaltepec de Candayoc in the Southern Highlands of Oaxaca, México. The pedagogical paradigm of this university model is inserted in the approach of the Communality understood as an alternative of professionalization with ethnic relevance, linked to the territory and to the dynamics of the indigenous communities in the rural environment. In this educational context, young people are trained to respond to the social, economic, political and cultural needs that afflict their hometowns, however, there is a profile of graduates who prefer to move to the city of Oaxaca for the purpose to join the labor market that -mainly- offer Civil Society Organizations political cohort in defense of the rights of indigenous peoples. This article has the interest of carrying out a first analysis on three specific axes: a) the community and the family as the first spaces in which the educational career takes place, b) the work arrangements and the construction of political subjectivities in front of the educational project of the ISIA and 3) the urban environment and the dilemmas about the community. The present proposal is nourished by ethnographic records made within the framework of the university and biographical accounts of young residents in the city of Oaxaca.