CITIZENSHIP IN THE DEMOCRATIC CONTEXT OF LATIN AMERICA

This documental investigation picks up an important bibliographical revision that gives to a critical reflection around the topic-problem of the citizenship, in the context of Latin America. It comes from critical work about citizenship that produces T. H. Marshall in the 50s, retaken by Tom Bottomore, in 1992, with the purpose of revising the importance and force that the citizen takes under the new social conditions in which the political world is today, things that corroborate, among other authors of the 90s, Will Kymlicka and Wayne Norman with his rehearsal about "the citizen's return: a revision of the recent production in theory of the citizenship." These works have serve as base to think the citizenship of Latin America during the second half of the XX century, here are taken with the purpose of elucidating the reality of the constitution of the citizenship in the region, their forms of operating and the possibilities of the citizen exercise in the context of democracy that has been established in the continent and it tries to generate a reflection about the conditions in which it could be possible, recognizing the cultural differences that mark our sociopolitical constitution and that evidence the presence of the diverse citizenships in which today are taken place.