"Include Them, Don't Exclude Them": Reinsertion of Return Migrants in the Mexican Educational System

• In Event: Teaching as Peace Education Praxis for the Historically Marginalized

Abstract

In this presentation, we focus on how 15 return migrants who are now studying a BA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) in Mexico, reflected on issues such as education, identity and discrimination. These participants lived in the United States for a period of time and returned to Mexico for various reasons. We argue that as educators, we need to re-address issues of discrimination, otherization and exclusion so we stop reproducing discriminatory practices as the ones these return migrants face when being part of the educational system. This would in turn help to stop the reproduction of educational inequalities in the new generations of return migrants and see them as an asset rather than as burden.

Authors

• Irasema Mora-Pablo, Universidad de Guanajuato

• Edgar Emmanuell García-Ponce, University of Guanajuato

• Jorge Luis Mendoza Valladares, University of Guanajuato