Transnational peasants : migrations, networks, and ethnicity in Andean Ecuador
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Transnational peasants : migrations, networks, and ethnicity in Andean Ecuador
（Johns Hopkins paperbacks）
Johns Hopkins University Press, [2003?], c2000
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Originally published: 2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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A study of the variety of transnational migrations from Ecuador, providing a historical and sociological exploration of a contemporary migration mystery: 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 labourers. In contrast, an indigenous group of Quichua-speakers from the northern canton of Otavalo travel the world as handcraft merchants and musicians playing Andean music. In one village, Kyle found that Otavalans were migrating to 23 different countries and returning within a year. Kyle rejects the notion that contemporary globalization through technology is the primary cause of this mobility. He argues that patterns of transnationalism, developed over several centuries and varying by region and ethnicity, continue to play a crucial role in who will leave Ecuador and who will stay.
Yet migrants' use of professional "migration merchants", including smugglers, leads to a phenomenon that transcends the original sending conditions of the 1980s; even cash-poor rural small-holders in communities lacking telephone service can but a clandestine passage to Manhattan.
Table of Contents
List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction: Transnational Peasants?
Chapter 2. Common Context, Divergent Outcomes
Chapter 3. The Panama Hat Trail From Azuay
Chapter 4. Azuayan Villages: Tomebamba and Quipal
Chapter 5. Tourist Trails Out Of Otavalo
Chapter 6. Otavalan Villages: Peguche and Guanansi
Chapter 7. Conclusion: Of Migration Merchants and Merchant Migrants
Appendix A: Study Design
Appendix B: Statistical Overview of Migration
Glossary: Spanish Terms Used in Text
References
Index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction: Transnational Peasants?
Chapter 2. Common Context, Divergent Outcomes
Chapter 3. The Panama Hat Trail From Azuay
Chapter 4. Azuayan Villages: Tomebamba and Quipal
Chapter 5. Tourist Trails Out Of Otavalo
Chapter 6. Otavalan Villages: Peguche and Guanansi
Chapter 7. Conclusion: Of Migration Merchants and Merchant Migrants
Appendix A: Study Design
Appendix B: Statistical Overview of Migration
Glossary: Spanish Terms Used in Text
References
Index
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