Resumen

CRUZ-SALAZAR, Tania. El joven indígena en Chiapas: el re-conocimiento de un sujeto histórico. LiminaR [online]. 2012, vol.10, n.2, pp.145-162. ISSN 2007-8900.

This paper offers a discussion on the emergente of the Indigenous Youth as an historic Subject in Chiapas. I contextualize its recognition throught the analysis of economic, social and political processes ocurres between 1980 and 2005, those were, the agrarian crisis, the nternational youth migration explossion, the role of indigenous Schools and the establishment of the intercultural model education. Ethnography was the method to carry out indeep interviews in Chiapas, Florida and California from 2008 to 2012 in different times and spaces. The findings show youth conditions, experiences and processes among Tseltales, Ch'oles, Cholanotseltales, Mayas-Lacandones y Tsotsiles boys and girls.

Palabras llave : youth; ethnicity; generation; education; migration.