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In this thesis special attention is given to the current reality regarding education and migration in Arequipa, situated in the South of Peru. The focus of this study regards the existing perspectives of seven collaborators of Intiwawa, a young fourth pillar organization working with local families in three little villages … Coporaque, Salinas and San Isidro … in the area of Arequipa. The methodology of this research consists of literature review, participant observation, interviews and informal conversations. To improve local development in Peru a drastic change in the structure of the educational system and government is deemed as an absolute condition. The establishment of as well specific restrictions regarding students who migrate to a foreign country in order to pursue an academic study as implementing new opportunities for the local inhabitants are a second suggestion to improve local development of Peru. Further, the respondents state that improving local development needs to be done by means of anticipating on migration as a tool to create opportunities and quitting functioning as an obligation for the people in order to escape their miserable lives. Keywords: Arequipa, development, education, Intiwawa, migration, perspectives

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In this thesis special attention is given to the current reality regarding education and migration in Arequipa, situated in the South of Peru. The focus of this study regards the existing perspectives of seven collaborators of Intiwawa, a young fourth pillar organization working with local families in three little villages … Coporaque, Salinas and San Isidro … in the area of Arequipa. The methodology of this research consists of literature review, participant observation, interviews and informal conversations. To improve local development in Peru a drastic change in the structure of the educational system and government is deemed as an absolute condition. The establishment of as well specific restrictions regarding students who migrate to a foreign country in order to pursue an academic study as implementing new opportunities for the local inhabitants are a second suggestion to improve local development of Peru. Further, the respondents state that improving local development needs to be done by means of anticipating on migration as a tool to create opportunities and quitting functioning as an obligation for the people in order to escape their miserable lives. Keywords: Arequipa, development, education, Intiwawa, migration, perspectives