The city of Popayan, Colombia, from the imaginary of young migrants

Abstract

This academic reflection originates within the Master of Education from the University of Cauca, whose purpose is posed to develop a research process for this case helps build knowledge around three outstanding items: young people, imaginary and city. In this way, we will continue understanding the dynamics in which the pedagogical praxis and contextual and subjective reality of individuals that we face every day in our daily life. A theoretical review of the above categories has been carried out. Therefore, the methodological approach was made from a quality perspective, based on a life history methodology that allowed a first interpretation of reality and of the surrounding elements, building patterns of meaning from the “arts of making” proposed by Michel De Certeau into two categories the “strategy” and “tactics”, finding out some elements related to the freedom of living in coexistence with an internal dispute between the culture of migrants and the novelty elements of the city, a situation that makes them susceptible to be transformed during the investigative process that took place in a neighborhood called Bellohorizonte in Popayan, with some young people who have migrated to it.