Génération d’incertitudes: jeunes, école et insertion professionnelle au Mexique

• Main Author: Gilberto Ramos Iduñate
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2013-06-01
• Series: Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
• Subjects: Youth; professional training; professional integration; sociology of education; relation between studies- employment.
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/65585

To imagine school as the most important factor of emancipation in the context of poverty is deeply inserted into the collective mind. In Southern countries, this trust given to schools is even more important, because it is the only way out of poverty, especially among young people. Nevertheless, in the binomial distribution – employment is more than ever questionable, especially in the socioeconomic context where finding a job is rare and the job itself is precarious. This article is about two important aspects, including structural aspects of lives of young people in the context of poverty. On one hand, we are interested in the school system, seen as a promise of social upgrading. The investigation focused on the analysis of the « Bachilleratos Técnicos » (technical high schools), because these receive the highest number of socioeconomically disadvantaged students. On the other hand, we are interested in the job market to compare the expectations of young adults in the socioeconomic context of the country.  What are the expectations that lead them to continue their education, knowing that their parents were not academically trained?  We also wonder if the series of problems that confront young adults echo the government's public policy.