From Cuenca to Queens: An Anthropological Story of Transnational Migration

by Ann Miles

Book Overview

Transnational migration is a controversial and much-discussed issue in both the popular media and the social sciences, but at its heart migration is about individual people making the difficult choice to leave their families and communities in hopes of achieving greater economic prosperity. Vicente Quitasaca is one of these people. In 1995 he left his home in the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca to live and work in New York City. This anthropological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292701713
• ISBN13: 9780292701717
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.4"