Abstract

URBALEJO CASTORENA, Olga Lorenia. City of migrants, town to stay. Institutional relations and cultural practices of indigenous groups in Tijuana, Mexico. Culturales [online]. 2016, vol.4, n.2, pp.21-41. ISSN 2448-539X.

The goal is to analyze the situation of indigenous people in Tijuana, who are distinguished by the permanent practice of migration. They have been established in the border town and from there they are seen as groups that share some characteristics between diversity of people, such as cultural practices; an example of these as celebrating the patron saints. Celebrations are what will lead us to analyze how people built community ties and express they being indigenous, and at the same time they are a medium used to set up relations with government institutions. These relations are mediated by the leaders of associations, which characterize part of their organization, notwithstanding it may be assumed that not all indigenous persons being to an association, neither these organizations are representative of all.

Keywords : indigenous; Tijuana; permanent migration; celebrations; institutional relations.