Andrea Alvarado-Urbina Awarded Fondecyt Postdoctoral Fellowship

Congratulations to Andrea Alvarado-Urbina–she has been awarded a Fondecyt Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID). Her project, “Youth in Transit(ion): Ethnic Identities and Capital Formation in Rural Aymara Students Transitioning into Urban High Schools in Arica, Chile,” will provide a thorough first-hand account of the challenges, difficulties and opportunities Aymara rural students confront when transitioning into urban high schools. This study will illuminate the ways in which Aymara students’ ethnic identity and the mobilization of their nonmaterial resources reinforce and/or restrain each other, and how this relationship shifts when the cultural frame of reference changes.