If the north were south, the indigenous identity in university contexts

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to analyze the influence that temporarily leaving their territories of origin has on the construction of identity of students from indigenous communities at the Universidad del Valle - Palmira campus. Under the life history technique, a series of semi-structured interviews will be conducted with indigenous students belonging to the Universidad del valle - Sede Palmira, and people belonging to the university context (student representatives, university welfare, ethnic affairs, etc.), These data were analyzed through the qualitative data analysis software, Atlas Ti, under the strategy of content analysis, which will make it possible to show which are the aspects that stand out most in the discourse of young indigenous students, which allow to demonstrate what has been the work of this in the support of indigenous students and how it influences the construction of identity. Since this is an ongoing research, there is not enough structured information under the processes relevant to the work to obtain a solid conclusion, however, certain results and partial conclusions have emerged at present to make a hypothesis of the case.