Muerte materna en mujeres indígenas de México y racismo de Estado. Dispositivos biopolíticos en salud

Abstract

17 years after since the Mexican government subscribed the millennium objectives of development, the indigenous populations keep showing the biggest maternal mortality reason of the country. Since our perspective, it is proposed that the state reason, expressed in a racist way of command, this defines those lives that deserve be lived and that the health services are biopolitical devices that serves to the state to reproduce and configure exclusion-extinction dynamics for the indigenous people. In this process, the politics and the health system goes defining a set of mechanisms targeted to the individual body and the population as well, that neutralizes practices such as gender violence, discrimination, obstetric violence and that, at an individual and collective level violents the right to health protection and to the right to live of the indigenous women. The politics in charge of protecting life are threatening with becoming into an act of death, in front of the entanglement of gender, ethnics and social class, causing that to the indigenous women letting them die during the pregnancy, birth labor and puerperium, making an impact on indigenous midwifes to whom through the control device of hegemonic science disqualifies and relegates the task of caring parturient women and new born that have developed historically.