The youth organization and implication for spare time in Ciudad Juárez

• Aida Yarira Reyes Escalante ^[1] ; Edith Vera Bustillos ^[1] ; Carlos Alberto Ochoa Ortiz Zezzati ^[1] ; Dulce Ramirez ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez

     Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez

     México

     
• Localización: Theomai: estudios sobre sociedad, naturaleza y desarrollo, ISSN-e 1515-6443, Nº. 40, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Trabajo, ocio y violencia en las organizaciones juveniles e infantiles de las fronteras), págs. 51-75
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Each of the human generations that have lived over time, possess their particular identity, experience and impact on society. Although important intergenerational differences concur, nowadays as well as in the past, the youths develop their own forms of entertainment, where different activities are carried out in doing so, but always linked to specific needs, preferences, and choices in the realm of leisure and spare time. In that sense, satisfying the different needs about the theme of leisure, the choices and preferences result in important crossroads for addressing forms of organization and involvement of young people to carry out their recreational activities. Thus, is relevant to study how youth people living in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, fulfill their spare time and leisure amid a social reality, economic, and cultural development permeated by recurrent crises of violence in the borderland. A context that manifests individualized human needs that usually are diminished by the collective interests carried into a social construction (Carosio, 2008; Doyan, Len & Gough, 1994), which refers to the participants and its context of this study, the youths and leisure in a vulnerable city.

    We argued that the decades of the old-Juarez tradition of outings at the public spaces, parks, museums, centers and areas of all kind of recreational services was too dangerous during the violent years that still persists, involving always a personal struggle, and a precautionary stance because Ciudad Juárez, located just across the South border of Texas, U.S., has been widely deemed as the murder capital of the world (National GeographicMexico, 2017). The city of 1.3 million people who testifies about murders above 3,700 in the worst year, especially from 2008 to 2012, have had too many changes, social, political and economic since business and industry closed by the thousands during the worst years of violence