School violence in Mexico due to non-normative identities and sexualities: a view from the intersectionality

Abstract

This article analyzes the violence towards the students of Mexican schools of compulsory education, who have non-normative identities and sexualities. School violence is greater and more complex towards these individuals and groups but, as noted, is not limited to binary heterosexuality / homosexuality. It is also closely linked to the particular ways in which discrimination, exclusion and oppression are expressed towards people whose identities are shaped by the permanent dynamic intersection of various categories such as gender, age, ethnicity, migratory status, social class, religion, among others Here, approaches of intersectionality approach are taken up to examine school violence from the complexity that today characterizes this social problem. This reason is due to the fact that intersectionality emphasizes the particular ways in which different social categories are interconnected in the interpersonal, cultural, disciplinary and structural dimensions that explain some concrete expressions of school violence towards certain identity groups, whose configuration obeys other phenomena contemporaries of social injustice linked to discrimination, exclusion and oppression.