Intercultural approach to international guidelines aimed at ethnic and migrant population

Abstract

This article deals the international guidelines with an intercultural approach towards ethnic and migrant population. The intercultural approach seeks recognition of diversity and symmetrical cultural status for these differences. The ethnic and migrant population is considered the majority by international organizations. The analysis to the ethnic is directed toward the indigenous peoples of the ancestral territories, reaching all continents. However, Latin America has the greater visibility of this population. On the other hand, is the migrant population which, for various reasons, either for refuge, work, study, etc., needs to migrate from their countries of origin to other, where they will be there for a short period of time or as permanent residents. Both populations have been regarded by intercultural education, focusing on Europe toward the migrant population and in Latin America toward the ethnic population. Taking into account this international context, this review is part of the international guidelines aimed at both ethnic and migrant population and intercultural education that share two basic purposes of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948).