Latin American ethnicity as a new global social class

Abstract

he direct confrontation at the local level between the Latin American indigenous communities and the transnational companies supported by their legal and state systems without the mediation of the national states and the forced migration due to the cessation of support for production and rural population has led Latin American indigenous peoples to a new situation where ethnic social integration is deterritorialized, fragmented, extended and, at the same time, recomposed and complexed in a systemic confrontation that is not understood at the national level but only at the global level. Hence, insofar as it is a new structural situation, which in turn generates new forms of integration, consciousness and action that transcend the original ethnic identifications and differentiations with political movements that advance from local to global positions, from local to multi-ethnic, multi-class, national and even regional Latin American representation; We can say that Latin American ethnicity as a form of specific social integration has become a new class of the global system, and that, filling the spaces abandoned by the nation states, their political movements are becoming references, but above all options, for all classes and social groups that are excluded from the functionality and new social engineering imposed by the modernizing projects of said globalization.