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Transnational Peasants: Migrations, Networks, and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador

Transnational Peasants: Migrations, Networks, and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador

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Series: Migrations, Networks, and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 0801872405
ISBN13: 9780801872402
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Jun 1 2003
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.12
Language: English

Why do two groups from the same country pursue radically different economic strategies of transnational mobility? David Kyle examines the lives of people from four rural communities in two regions of the Andean highlands of Ecuador. Migrants from the southern province of Azuay shuttle back and forth to New York City, mostly as undocumented laborers. In contrast, an indigenous group of Quichua-speakers from the northern canton of Otavalo travel the world as handicraft merchants and musicians playing Andean music. In one village, Kyle found that Otavalans were migrating to 23 different countries and returning within a year. Transnational Peasants provides an intriguing historical and sociological exploration of a contemporary migration mystery.

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