Editorial

Abstract

It is well known that knowledge is not generated randomly. For this reason, this time we present a series of articles that, although they belong to different fields, disciplines and perspectives, have as their main characteristic a humanistic cut that is so essential in Xihmai. Like all research products, these articles have been the result of many hours of reflection, analysis, perhaps even experimentation and, definitely, synthesis. In this context, Ángel Christian Luna Alfaro presents us with a taboo subject, prostitution, but from a perspective that has not been addressed much: the unhealthy consequences for the women who exercise it and the difficulty of establishing public policies to support it, since, beginning with the corruption of health instances, the lack of definition of prostitution as another job in the labor market and the beliefs of the women involved about the use of condoms and sexual health, have curtailed the proposals, which are also useless in practice. The ethnography prepared by the author opens the panorama in a well-known and little addressed reality such as prostitution in order to advance informed and responsible decision-making. The next scenario, just as vulnerable, is the one presented by Carlos Mejía Reyes, Adrián Galindo Castro and Edgar Noé Blancas Martínez about discrimination in our state, Hidalgo. This negative practice is generally based on the culture of our society, which draws very specific boundaries of belonging in a certain symbolic circumstance through the basic distinction of "us versus 'the others'". This qualitative and quantitative approach offered by the authors yields as results that wealth, religion, the difference in values ​​and sexual preference are compelling reasons that cause divisions among the people of Hidalgo, mainly.