The Making of a Transnational Community: Migration, Development, and Cultural Change in the Dominican Republic

by Elaine Georges and Eugenia Georges

This book is a thorough piece of work, based upon solid field research. It is a detailed analysis of the effects of political and economic change on Los Pinos, a rural community in the Dominican Republic. It examines the causes and consequences of international labor migration and the responses of the population of Los Pinos and its surrounding communities to the new opportunities and conditions of migration.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231070969
• ISBN13: 9780231070966
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher