Vidas juveniles: Trayectos biográficos de mujeres y varones en Córdoba y Ciudad Juárez

Abstract

Juvenile Lives: Biographical Paths Of Men And Women In Cordoba And Ciudad Juarez. The paper sets eyes on the biographical paths of young men and women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico City and Cordoba, Argentina. The Biopolitical dimension of youth seems to have clear proximity particularly on the structure of opportunities offered by the educational, productive and cultural system that promote both states. The main objective is to establish relationships between experiences of juvenile lives of border and urban marginal contexts. The methodology is qualitative type using the biographical approach. Discussions show excluding ways of living everyday life marked by strong constraints to deploy potentialities and acquired skills. So youth lives constitute clandestine stories of cities mediated by social control and police logic that violates his civil rights. Ciudad Juarez located on the US-Mexico border constitutes a deterioration as a political community, favored by the domain of an extreme daily violence concomitant to the creation of fears as a central element in the daily lives of its inhabitants. Córdoba far from border landscapes assumes more naturally the hegemonic discourse of social security that requires of the militarization to be approached / understood. The first results show how the rhetoric of social disprotection based on fear builds juvenile enemies of predetermined spectrum. But not only the present approaches them to the Youths analyzed here, but the biographical account also houses figures of childhood in which they share scenario and similar situations: Confusing deaths, prison spaces, transit by institutions of confinement, crimes and shared inclemencies.