La Comunidad Nahua en Morelia y su contribución a la construcción de puentes interculturales entre las infancias

Abstract

This text presents the results of a research that sought to know the interaction mechanisms that childhood generates to learn from the school and the city, including their participation in their community and in the commercial activities that they develop with their family. We work from an ethnographic research process with Nahua girls and boys from the state of Guerrero, migrants in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. We develop two summer courses with different socio-educational and reflection activities, based on reading, writing, sciences experiments, guided visits to a museums, construction of mental cartographies and interviews, from there it was sought to reflect with them and their experiences around the way in which they “appropriate” the city, their community and their school. The results show the ways in which they are interacting with different groups of people in the different spaces. It was also found that in most cases, girls and boys are learning school content not without certain difficulties to continue their schooling, to recognize and appropriate the spaces they interact. But we underline the ways they “reterritorialize” the practices of their families, update cultural practices and strengthen the recognition of Nahuatl self-ascription, influencing this process in other non-Nahua boys and girls and their families, when the conditions of interactions let it.

"Aprendes a Vivir con las Cosas Nuevas". Vivencias de Familias Náhuatl[1] Migrantes de Guerrero

“…Con frecuencia, la causa es el deterioro ecológico de sus comunidades de origen, que ocasiona baja calidad en sus cosechas, entre otras situaciones (Ambriz Aguilar, s.f.). Se mueven familias completas, sobre todo en casos de indígenas, para vender artesanías o muebles, o hacia zonas agrícolas que requieren jornaleros (Méndez Puga et al, 2018;Méndez Puga & Vargas Silva, 2022). Asimismo, se aprecia cómo se apoyan en sus redes familiares, para encontrar empleo como para hospedarse, tal como se menciona en Ambriz Aguilar (s.f.…”