Youth and Intersectionality: Research Results in Mexico City

This paper presents research results on young people living and transiting the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico, where the megalopolis of Mexico City is located. Different research techniques employed inform how much young people like the city considering different experiences generated by social divisions due to an intersectional approach, which mark inequalities, opportunities and privileges.

Referring to the place where people live provides preliminary information about their satisfaction with, or rejection of, everyday life. Young people express their experiences in peripheral municipalities or municipalities; they highlight insecurity, assaults, violence, traffic, entertainment, mobility.

Results are presented on the perception of young women in urban and semi-urban areas. Results also highlight young people's perceptions of who attends the best schools and the location of these schools in the most exclusive neighbourhoods of the city, which complements the information on chains of inequalities and chains of privilege based on ethncity, social class, skin colour, age group, ancestry.