Jóvenes mexicanos: violencias estructurales y criminalización

Abstract

This article discusses the manifestations of violence in Mexican youth from a socio-cultural perspective that reveals the heterogeneity of the social experience of these subjects. Our theoretical-methodological position allows us to identify youth dynamics that call for the construction of more adequate notions in order to 1) study the particularity of youth at the crossroads of age, gender, class and ethnicity, and to 2) understand to what extent the participation of youth as perpetrators and the criminalization of their cultural productions are related to the vulnerability of youth in Mexico. In this sense, the notion of de-citizenization constitutes a theoretical contribution with a critical potential for revealing legislation that violates the rights of young people.

Keywords

• age discrimination
• de-citizenization
• organized crime
• stigmatization
• youth