Abstract

NATERAS, Alfredo. Idaentity ffiliations, maras and gangs; ¿social lives deteriorated?. Desidades [online]. 2020, n.28, pp. 166-182. ISSN 2318-9282.

The objective of this writing is a reflection on what Hobsbawn calls “identity politics”, about one of the most enigmatic actors and social subjects in the phenomenal world and social space, that provide a face and nuance to the unsuspected. I refer here to the children and youth grouped in “barrios”, “maras”, “gangs” and “cliques” - micro groups, micro identities - in the North Central American Triangle (NTC), considered the most dangerous area in the world, containing the countries of El Salvador, Honduras (San Pedro Sula is the most violent site in the region) and Guatemala, which are articulated by three critical, changing, and complex conditions: precariousness, the associated social violence, and transnational migrations. Likewise, some alternatives are derived from the construction of juvenile citizenship, from the culture of peace, in a cultural-artistic code, and in the social and cultural doings within these affiliations.

Keywords : youths; precariousness; migration; and death violence.

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