Student Problems in the Postwar and Cold War: Mexicans in the International Student Union (1946-1956)
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This article aims to describe the process of the emergence of a narrative on student issues in the world of the post-World War II and the first years of the Cold War (ca. 1946-1956), based on the experience of Mexican students affiliated with the International Union of Students. Through the analysis of the voices of students recorded in the official documents of the Union, I give an account of the process of translation and negotiation of student interests, as well as the need to position in the international agenda the issues related to each region, country or school, to match these interests with the principles of friendship, union and international cooperation that appeared in the act of creation of this global organization. I conclude that the consensus of the narrative of student problems in the Union was reached through political tensions when translating local, national and regional experiences, while some student delegates questioned the national representativeness of the members of this internationalist organization.
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