Indigenous university students in the first semester of the Covid-19 pandemic: experiences in a student housing

Abstract

The article describes the experiences of indigenous university students who lived in a student housing during the period of increased social distancing in the first half of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is a qualitative research, using a field diary, documental survey and interviews. Thematic content analysis was carried out, from the perspective of limit-situation and unpublished-feasible concepts and resilience. Two categories were identified: suffering in the context of social distancing and strategies for overcoming difficulties. They experienced uncertainties and limits brought about by the pandemic, fears of being distant and illnesses. As confrontations, adaptations emerged in teaching, research and extension, individual resilience beyond academic activity and sought possible collective strategies towards resilience and deconstruction of stereotyped and romanticized views in the academic environment.