La Chulla Vida: Gender, Migration, and the Family in Andean Ecuador and New York City

by Jason Pribilsky

Book Overview

Chronicling the experience of young Andean families as their lives extend between Ecuadorian highlands and New York City, this book takes an in-depth look at transnational labor migration and gender identities. Jason Pribilsky offers an engrossing and sensitive account of the ways in which young men and women in these two locales navigate their lives, exploring the impact of gender, generation, and new forms of wealth in a single Andean community...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815631456
• ISBN13: 9780815631453
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"