Forms of exclusion from formal education in migrant Purépecha girls in Mexico City: Invisible resistance

Abstract

Being an indigenous girl, a migrant living in irregular settlements in large cities becomes that hinders access to formal education. This article presents an experience of exclusion of girls between 5 and 11 years of age, members of a Purépecha community originally from Capacuaro, Michoacán, migrants in Mexico City. A research action with a gender perspective was carried out with the purpose to exploring and describing the forms of exclusion from formal education during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the subaltern forms of resistance of female children. The research was performed through an educational strategy of artistic expression managed through an intercultural project developed in the public sphere. The results allude to disadvantages in terms of social and communicative skills; utterances of sexism; and structural violence related to the lack of access to fundamental human rights, as well as in mechanisms of accompaniment, self-determination and self-government that made possible the resistance to the moment described.