Higher Education and Urban Migration for Community Resilience: Indigenous Amazonian Youth Promoting Place‐Based Livelihoods and Identities in Peru.

This paper offers an ethnographic analysis of indigenous Peruvian Amazonian youth pursuing higher education through urban migration to contribute to the resilience of their communities, place‐based livelihoods, and indigenous Amazonian identities. Youth and their communities promoted education and m...

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Publicado en:Anthropology & Education Quarterly Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 89 - 106
Autor principal: Steele, Diana
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2018
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Sumario:This paper offers an ethnographic analysis of indigenous Peruvian Amazonian youth pursuing higher education through urban migration to contribute to the resilience of their communities, place‐based livelihoods, and indigenous Amazonian identities. Youth and their communities promoted education and migration as powerful tools in the context of educational inequality, racial discrimination, and threats to their communities' ways of life from colonization and natural resource extraction.