Abstract

AQUINO MORESCHI, Alejandra. «In my Case, the American Dream was not Attained» Race and Class Inequalities in the Biographical Trajectories of Zapotec Migrant Children in the United States. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2020, vol.15, e462.  Epub Mar 05, 2021. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2020.v15.462.

This paper uses a biographical approach to explore how US-born children of Zapotec migrants experience the structural inequalities derived from gender, class, and particularly «race». It contends that these Zapotec youths, who are at great disadvantage must simultaneously respond to two normative projects regulating their social inclusion: transition into adulthood and assimilation into the society receiving their parents. Using three biographical trajectories, this paper exposes the significant racial barriers these young people face upon attempting to comply with these normative projects in a context that is so structured that social inclusion is unlikely or is extremely precarious.

Keywords : Migrations; assimilation; structural racism; youth.