Territorial inequality of the Autonomous Indigenous University of Mexico in the Yoreme-Mayo communities

Abstract

Since the Autonomous Indigenous University of Mexico (UAIM) emerged, a little more than twenty years ago, to give attention mainly to indigenous peoples, especially the yoreme–mayo in the north of Sinaloa, it is analyzed from the territorial point of view, the relationship of the ethnic, indigenous and «non-indigenous» makeup, and the growth of the Institution's enrollment with the distribution of the indigenous communities and localities of Sinaloa, but mainly with this people. It is not an economic issue of supply and demand, but rather the study is part of a neoindigenism that is underway, susceptible to study.

The central question was, in what way does the territorial distribution of the UAIM enrollment occur in relation to the yoreme–mayo localities? The secondary questions were: How has the presence of the UAIM been in the indigenous communities of Sinaloa? What is the spatial topology of the relationship between the communities and the UAIM enrollment?

The research method used is basically the territorial one, in which aspects of analytic–synthetic, deductive-inductive, documentary and ethnographic analysis are used.