URBAN INDIGENOUS YOUTH

contemporary rights and citizenships in Latin America

Abstract

This dossier is composed of seven articles that contains ethnographic data, reflections and analyzes on urban indigenous youth, in relation to the recognition and exercise of rights, in the context of the construction of citizenship at the end of the second decade of the 21st century. Indigenous youth define themselves and are recognized by their own cultural groups, academia and institutions as a historical and social subject, which in different social structures and normative instruments is considered as a subject of law that is struggling to be fully adhered to the political community of the city, from different positions, forms of participation and degrees of political consciousness. So the articles focus on a broad geography to address the conditions of being a woman, a man, a migrant, a returning migrant, a student, a worker, among other categories, and reside in a border, medium-sized or metropolis city, demonstrate the multiplicity of experiences that are recorded from different explanatory frameworks and methodological approaches to reconstruct and show the complexity of what we could call the experience of urban indigenous youth in Latin America. On the other hand, we highlight the contributions of the interview with Dr. Laura Valladares de la Cruz, whose reflections are fundamental to understand the current complexity that involves the concentration of studies on the themes and lines of research presented here, as well as the growing need to produce pertinent and innovative approaches and theoretical and methodological perspectives for the approach of a youthful social subject in constant construction and that assumes a growing protagonism in the current dynamics of social, economic, political and cultural change. Finally, we propose one on the text: Indigenous Youth. "Interdisciplinary Intercultural Studies related to Brazil and Mexico", highlights the main contributions of this work that gathers works that were presented in academic events between 2015 and 2016.

Keywords: urban youth, contemporary rights and citizenship, Latin America.