Urban indigenous peoples in argentina: status of the issue

Abstract

The issue of the urban indigenous peoples turns out to be a special challenge to be considered by the social sciences, and the anthropological discipline. This is particularly so considering that, in
Argentina, the greater part of the indigenous peoples resides in urban areas, and that, even though different studies performed on this matter have been recently increased, this is an issue that has
received little discussion. Our goal set is to make a general approach to the contemporaneous urban indigenous issue in Argentina, and to consider the migration dynamics, and the organizational processes in urban areas. We will provide examples for this issue based on situations corresponding to the three indigenous groups of greater demographic incidence in the country: the Mapuche people -based on the case of inhabitants that have migrated to diverse cities in Northern Patagonia- , the Qom people, and the Guaraní people. In these last two groups, the processes of the "Nogoyin Ni Nala" (Qom and Moqoit) and the "Cacique Hipólito Yumbay" communities respectively, both located in the district of Almirante Brown, in Greater Buenos Aires (the Province of Buenos Aires), were analyzed. We set, as a complementary goal, the creation of a series of guidelines to approach this issue, which can serve as a resource to deepen in future contributions.