AMAZONIAN INDIGENOUS MIGRATION IN THE ANDEAN PERIPHERY OF LIMA: EDUCATION, KENÉ AND SHIPIBO-KONIBO RETERRITORIALIZATION

Abstract

The paper focuses on the migration of Shipibo-Konibo families from the Peruvian Amazon to the urban periphery of Lima, in Cashahuacra, a rocky slope of the Andean foothills of Santa Eulalia with a high risk of landslides. It analyzes the female and male narratives of self-representation of the migrant in search of university education, highlighting the language of kinship and the agency of the Shipibo-Konibo art of kené designs in the lives of families that constitute an Amazonian enclave among Andean migrants, facing discrimination, environmental disasters and threats of expulsion. We propose that migration is conceived in terms of learning and the reterritorialization of the place expressed in the muralization of their houses with kené. We argue that the artistic intervention of public space is a community form of counter-monument to the autopoiesis of urban Shipibo-Konibo citizenship.

Keywords:
Indigenous urban migration; Peruvian Amazonia; Shipibo-Konibo; Indigenous art; Counter-monuments