Rodríguez, M. F. y Saavedra, M. (2020). Moviéndose de una decepción a otra: los jóvenes que cambian de escuelas en contextos urbano-vulnerables de Lima Metropolitana. Revista Peruana de Investigación Educativa, 12(12), 217–242. https://doi.org/10.34236/rpie.v12i12.146

The study analyses the phenomenon of student mobility in relation to the characteristics of the social and educational context of the city of Lima, Peru. The article recounts the educational trajectories of 18 young men and women from Carabayllo who experienced between 2 to 9 transfers during school. In this article, we focus on three types of transfers: those resulting from educational strategies, those that arise as a reaction to a state of saturation due to the unsatisfactory conditions of schools, and those that occur from private to public schools due to economic difficulties in sustaining fees’ payments, a particular type of transfer in the Peruvian case. These findings suggest that the context of spatial and educational segregation, of accelerated growth of private schools of low cost and heterogeneous quality, and apparent free choice, has produced — as an undesirable consequence— that certain students move among a series of options that will not always mean the educational improvement that their parents desire. This situation could harm their educational trajectories and lead them to move from one disappointment to another.