Higher Education and Urban Migration for Community Resilience: Indigenous Amazonian Youth Promoting Place‐Based Livelihoods and Identities in Peru

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

E-ISSN: 1548-1492|49|1|89-105

ISSN: 0161-7761

Source: ANTHROPOLOGY & EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Vol.49, Iss.1, 2018-03, pp. : 89-105

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Abstract

This paper offers an ethnographic analysis of indigenous Peruvian Amazonian youth pursuing higher education through urban migration to contribute to the resilience of their communities, place‐based livelihoods, and indigenous Amazonian identities. Youth and their communities promoted education and migration as powerful tools in the context of educational inequality, racial discrimination, and threats to their communities' ways of life from colonization and natural resource extraction.