GENDER, VIOLENCE AND CRIMINALIZATION OF YOUNG "BAND" PEOPLE. CHALLENGES TO THE INDIGENOUS AND PEASANT COMMUNALITY OF THE SIERRA NEVADA POBLANA

Abstract

Advances of a study on processes of gender identity, age and ethnicity in the surge and the group dynamics of peasant and Indigenous young 'band' people are discussed as well as their links to life expectations of the youth, to violence, and social cohesion, their transcendencies in the patriarchal order and the interculturality in the community of San Mateo Ozolco, settlement of the municipality of Calpan, Puebla. The community youth context is characterized by a persistent school dropout, the worsening of unemployment and impoverment, as well as a constant and intensified migration within Mexico, specially to Mexico City, and to the USA. This migration has undergone transformations, including return being a phenomenon that puts in evidence the social, domestic and community organization and coexistence with regard to the capacity of integrating young 'band' people into their communality.

Keywords

• young band people
• violence
• criminalization
• gender
• indigenous youth
• young farmers
• social cohesion
• communality