Bolivian migration and secondary school in Argentina: reflections in intercultural key

Abstract

Argentine educational policies began in the last years to incorporate intercultural focus allowing specific dispositives for the indigenous population. In their actual implementation so called intercultural proposals are generally limited to the first years of schooling. Schooling of young migrants and migrant descendants is not atended in its particularities-specificities by these policies. The research I develop in families, community and school contexts, in a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires with a high component of bolivian migrants, poses this issue. Paying attention to the voices and experiences of fathers, community leaders, young and teachers, shows the various challenges, that the intercultural perspective poses to schools in migratory contexts. I focus in the advances and limits of secondary schools in the neighbourhood to work with the transnational condition of life of these young, and to take into account the doublé intention, of these young and their families to maintain their distinctivity as a collective group, while to be included in the Argentine society.