Rojas Arangoitia, V., y Carrasco Pons, S. (2024). Trayectorias educativas de jóvenes rurales y urbanos del Perú. Perifèria: Revista de Recerca i Formació en Antropologia, 29(2), 4-27. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/periferia.947

Based on fieldwork carried out in Peru as part of the Niños del Milenio – Young Lives project, which has been conducting a longitudinal comparative study with two cohorts of children since 2000 in four countries, we analyzed the educational trajectories of 22 adolescents living in poverty. We want to know how these young people -from rural and urban areas- perceive their educational trajectory, as well as what resources they identified as important to advance and complete their secondary education. Applying Tara Yosso’s (2005) framework of analysis on the multiple dimensions of social capital among vulnerable social sectors, we highlight the impact of the relational factor on educational trajectories, which implies considering not only what happens in the intra-school space but also in the extra-school space to explain their educational trajectories. Based on this, we propose a broader reflection on social and cultural capital that reveals edges and intersections between these capitals, which remain hidden in the quantitative analysis, but which are crucial to contribute to an educational policy towards equity.