In the past decades the United Nations (UN) elaborately dealt with the issues of discrimination, besides adopting many resolutions, three major documents came to life: the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the 1992 Declaration on the Rights...

Quotas in politics are almost always designed to advance the legislative representation of a single group, for example, women or indigenous peoples. Even in countries with quotas aimed at more than one group, policies are almost always structured differently and implemented separately. By...

In recent past, indigenous peoples' struggle against historical injustices have been successful in realising a distinct international legal regime regarding the rights of ‘indigenous peoples'. As a result, the claim for ‘indigeneity' has dramatically increased as part of global indigenous...

This study demonstrates a series of links between minority language skills, their economic return and their transmission across generations. Using a detailed matching procedure and different data sources, we estimate the likelihood of being employed for bilingual versus monolingual men for a...

While information exists on the process of indigenous migration to urban centers, there is very little systematic data on the current situation of urban indigenous populations in Mexico. This study analyzes the situation of five indigenous ethnic groups in three urban centers of Mexico: (a) the...