(De) Construcción de la etnicidad: Entre la asimilación y resistencia, análisis de la niñez Embera Chamí que habita en Bogotá.

Abstract

Latin American cities are facing continuous processes of acculturation and mestizaje, a product of the constant urban-rural migrations of indigenous groups that are beset by violence, hunger, and state abandonment, and decide to seek a better life in the city. The Embera community that arrives in Bogota faces problems associated with poverty, the absence of employment, and processes of acculturation that has a strong impact on indigenous childhood and adolescence, which makes it necessary to rethink how this cultural hybridization breaks with traditions, Languages, customs and customs and new citizens, who rebuild their identity with the backwardness and ancestral culture and what the city offers. For this work I investigate the processes of cultural and ethnic resistance that present the indigenous children in the city and the challenges of the State to guarantee the fundamental rights to this community settled in Bogota.