Wayuu Socio-Ethnic Reproduction
The socio-spatial segmentation and the crisis in the processes of socio-ethnic reproduction in Media Luna (La Guajira) allow us to understand the transition of the Wayuu towards a dependence on neoliberal assistance. From the ethnographies carried out between 1998 and 2018, it is argued that the process of socio-spatial segmentation originates from the reduction and fixation in the territory and the neoliberal policies of multicultural recognition. Its consequences are 1) that the new socio-spatial units no longer have the material means for subsistence and depend on salaried work and institutional supply; and 2) that ruptures are generated in the bonds of solidarity, collaboration and complementarity for mutual support and internal conflicts due to competition for institutional resources and equipment.