Indigenous youth and university education in the COVID-19 Contest

Abstract

The present investigative work has as objective to showing the general panorama of the university education for the indigenous youth and a approach to their profile when they get into the program Licenciatura en Gestion Intercultural para el Desarrollo, LGID in the Intercultural International Veracruzana University, Totonacapan Regional Campus. En Mexico as the rest of the Latin America countries, the rural and indigenous communities face great challenges in different aspects. That is showed in many researching and reports of the main organizations both national and international; a high degree of social marginalization under the level of of human development etc. This inequality is reflected in the educative field. In the case of the university education, the access of youth from rural e indigenous sectors are low in comparison with no indigenous population