El Programa de Apoyo a Estudiantes Indígenas en Instituciones de Educación Superior
Alcances, retos e impactos
Keywords:
educación superior, higher education, Trayectoria escolar, labor market, Scholar trajectories, Egresados indígenas, Trayectoria profesional, Indigenous graduatesAbstract
The Support Program for Indigenous Students in Higher Education Institutions (PAEIIES, for its acronym in Spanish) is an ethnic-based initiative implemented in Mexico in 2001, with funding from the Ford Foundation. This article presents an analysis of this Program from a study of indigenous graduates from two universities who were affiliated to it, since the perspective of theories of distributive justice and the sociology of inequality. First, we review the landscape of ethnic-based initiatives in Mexico, and then we discuss the emergence and the institutional reaches of the PAEIIES. Finally, we present the impact the program had on the indigenous graduates in three areas: their scholar trajectories, the relationship with their communities, and their access to labor market.
