Discrimination and exclusion of indigenous people in Guadalajara, Mexico

Abstract

The article presents the processes of exclusion and discrimination of indigenous migrants in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara, a city which denies their presence. Through the use of qualitative and quantitative data, we seek to understand how discrimination operates and is given significance, individual and collective responses from ethnic groups and from public instances in the recognition and guarantee of indigenous rights. The indigenous groups have created reciprocity and solidarity domestic nets —intra and interethnic— in order to solve housing and job issues, to produce and sell, to reenact fundamental aspects of their culture and to claim their rights.