Transnational peasants
Subtitle: migrations, networks, and ethnicity in Andean Ecuador
By: David Kyle.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Ecuadorians -- Foreign countries; Emigrant remittances -- Ecuador; Ethnicity -- Ecuador; Ecuador -- Emigration and immigration; Ecuador -- Social conditions; Ecuador -- Economic conditions -- 1972-
Description: "Transnational Peasants provides 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?".

"Kyle 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 buy a clandestine passage to Manhattan."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-241) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : transnational peasants?; title: Common context, divergent outcomes; title: The Panama hat trail from Azuay; title: Azuayan villages : Tomebamba and Quipal; title: Tourist trails out of Otavalo; title: Otavalan villages : Peguche and Guanansi; title: Conclusion : of migration merchants and merchant migrants.