Abstract

REYES VALDES, Dalia. The Diaspora as Identity in the Discourse of Girls, Daughters of Migrant Day Laborers, Secondary School Students. Rev. latinoam. estud. educ. [online]. 2023, vol.53, n.3, pp.305-334.  Epub Oct 06, 2023. ISSN 2448-878X.  https://doi.org/10.48102/rlee.2023.53.3.585.

This is an initial result of the research “Language and dignity” which is looking for inclusive educational strategies to promote cultural identity among Children of Migrant Day Laborers (NHJM) from their discourses. The discourse of six primary and secondary students, from Guerrero and Michoacán, students in Coahuila, was analyzed. The interview that produced the discourses has elements of identity: place of origin, religion, celebrations, school, home, and travel. The NHJM travel with their hired parents in greenhouses in Coahuila, Sinaloa, and Baja California for three to six months per place, a place where the young people attend general schools or greenhouse school. The analytical categories were discursive materialities (Haidar, 2006). The production context responded to Van Dijk’s (2012) socio-pragmatics. The interpretation understands language as social semiotics (Halliday, 2017). The results find a diffuse idea of the place of origin, rituals of detachment among the travel companions, a faded spatiotemporal conception, and the identification of the mother as the axis of an idea of home that does not materialize in any physical place, but in the diaspora.

Keywords : secondary school; migrant children; cultural identity.