Emancipation of urban indigenous youth in Mexico

Abstract

Focusing on the event of leaving the house of the parents’ home or emancipation, there are at least two hypotheses that mark the study of transition to adulthood. One of them is Bernardi’s (2007) which assumes that the condition for individuals to emancipate is for them to have reached at least the same socio-economic position of their family of origin. However, we also formulate another one specifically for indigenous youth. This population group, because it is a social category associated with poverty, will have an even more restricted and less voluntary emancipation than non-indigenous groups. Therefore, the main objective of this work is to analyze the sociodemographic characteristics of the emancipation of indigenous youth compared with non-indigenous people. The data source used in the present work is the Retrospective Demographic Survey (EDER) 2011.