LABOR RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS YOUTH IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE MIGRATION EXPERIENCE TO CITIES IN MEXICO

Abstract

The aim of this article is to place the discussion of the labor rights of indigenous youth in the contexts of migration, linking a political debate with the findings that different investigations have found when studying the participation of these actors in the migration phenomenon. the cities. The information base that I will present comes, on the one hand, from the study I have done in recent years on the structural and subjective conditions of young indigenous migrant women in the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico and organized indigenous women; on the other, from a bibliographic and documentary collection of indigenous youth in Mexico. It is concluded that, the exercise of labor rights for indigenous youth goes beyond training programs, training and participation in the educational system, or the conditions that exist in labor markets, at the same time, support for productive projects that involve younger generations in their own places of origin, a review of how megaprojects affect the living and working conditions of young people present and of future generations, likewise, it is important to consider the experience and condition juvenile as valuable in itself, but always understanding it in a broad context of social relations of power.