Indifference and cultural violence: Scholar desertion of Ralamuli children and teenagers in the city of Chihuahua

Abstract

In order to talk about scholar desertion among the indigenous population in the city of Chihuahua, it is necessary to walk down the historic path of the public policies that have been instated since Colonial times. Through this analysis, one can begin to explain the current situation of ralámuli children and adolescents, who due to economic, social and cultural pressures often abandon their studies, even when education is free and compulsory up to the upper secondary level; in this way, it can be said that their human rights are exceeded by indifference, discrimination and other types of cultural violence that are reflected in the public sphere in the form of schools that do not take indigenous education into account. Therefore, this article will present the partial results of the community intervention carried out in various urban indigenous communities.