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An introduction is presented in which editor discusses various articles within the issue on topics including patriarchal violence in contexts of organized crime; Patriarchy and violence against students and graduates and Gender inequality and violence in the teaching practice.

In this article we analyze how the social violence of organized crime is manifested in schools through the reproduction of a patriarchal order that materializes through processes of school precariousness, the formation of models of tense and dialogic masculinity, as well as daily practices of hierarchization, sexual division of schoolwork and the sexualization of the female body in schools. For this, an ethnographic study was carried out in which the staff of six basic education schools in Michoacán collaborated; Direct and participant observation, informal talks, group, and individual interviews were used. We identify that the patriarchal order established by organized crime in the regions is intertwined with the conditions of dismantling and job insecurity in the basic education sector, so that the necessary circumstances are provided for the reproduction of this order through different violent practices inside schools. This is facilitated by the alliances, silences, complicities, and fear of male school workers, who are attracted or subdued by the model of warrior masculinity that has displaced teacher masculinity. We conclude that within the schools in these contexts the gender device is reproduced according to the conditions of violence and territoriality related to organized crime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article considers the role of families and affective relationships in the construction of ethnic identity among Tenek and Nahua Indians who have migrated to the urban context of San Luis Potosí (Mexico). The author explores the challenges of ethnic reproduction in locations away from the groups' places of origin including aspects of socialization, education and social organization. The author draws on ethnographic and sociodemographic information and interviews with Tenek and Nahua professional.