Education, Inequality and Social Fragmentation in Mexico: School Trajectories of Privileged and Disadvantaged Youths

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Education, Inequality and Social Fragmentation in Mexico: School Trajectories of Privileged and Disadvantaged Youths

Monday, 25 February 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Venue: 
Latin American Centre Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
Speaker(s): 
Gonzalo Saraví (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropolgía Social, Mexico and Visiting Research Associate, Latin American Centre, University of Oxford)
Convenor: 
Dr Halbert Jones
Series: 
North American Studies Seminar Series

Mexico has made sustained progress in terms of education over the last decades: basic education coverage is almost universal today and years of schooling among the youngest generations have increased significantly. These results, however, hide simultaneous and deep processes of social inequality. In this presentation, Dr Saraví will explore this paradox analyzing new patterns of inequality between the educational trajectories of privileged and disadvantaged youths, and their implications in terms of a broader social fragmentation process in Mexican society.