Oblivion and memory: its discussion in migratory processes and cultural transformation

Abstract

This text reflects on migratory processes and their relationship with oblivion and collective memory. The experience of the triqui community that lives in the centre of Mexico City is recovered. This community arrives in Mexico City due to various events that affected such mobility, such as forced internal displacement and significant labor precariousness in rural areas. From an ethnographic approach to families were generated, and through creations such as murals or writings/poems, as well as the experience in everyday life, realizes a collective memory that comes into tension with the present time. The various backgrounds of poverty, exclusion and the consequent strategies to survive on a day-to-day basis are given an account of the tireless tension between forgetfulness and memory that manifests itself in a transformation of some ethnic elements. In addition, poems and other artistic actions that generate a footprint are intervening in social reality. The collective memory, in this sense, will have a dynamic characteristic and social change.