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

by David A. Kyle

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801864305
• ISBN13: 9780801864308
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"