Abstract

REYES GARCIA, Luis. A brief history of Citizenship in Mexico. Polis [online]. 2013, vol.9, n.2, pp.113-149. ISSN 2594-0686.

The present work aims to identify historical perspective on the different stages through which it has passed the construction of citizenship in Mexico. We intend to demonstrate that it is a long, eventful and dramatic process that systematically ideal citizens exist only in words and in formal definitions, but we are still far from the minimum precepts of citizenship a reality de facto all individuals and social groups. The transition to democracy that encouraged optimism that now they would enter into the fullness of citizens in Mexico seems to be more mirages than a goal achieved. The diagnosis of recent years continue to show that in terms of participation and interest in public affairs, prevailing distrust, disinterest, manipulation, uncertainty, all feed paid to practices to build that consolidation of citizenship.

Keywords : citizenship; participation; public interest; civil rights; democracy.