The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
Transnational Indigenous Migration: Racialized Geographies and Power in Southern Highland Ecuador
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>This study examines the shifting landscape of social and economic inequalities in the remittance-dominated region of southern highland Ecuador, focusing on the transformations brought about by increased international migration since the early 2000s. The broader question is whether or not transnational migration has facilitated political and social upward mobility among indigenous communities. More specifically I ask: in what ways does indigenous identity figure in contemporary international migration practices, how does transnational indigenous migration complicate bounded notions of rural indigenous life, and how might the strategies employed by indigenous migrants transform social and economic inequalities in two small towns in the Cañar province? In order to answer these questions, I engage a theoretical framework which draws from transnationalism and mobility studies and migration industry literature in order to more accurately depict the multiple and intersecting dimensions of contemporary indigenous migration.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Doctoral
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Anthropology
- Grantor
- The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
- Year dc:date.available
- 2016
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Stone-Cadena, Victoria
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- Marc Edelman
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas
- Donald Robotham
- John Collins
Subjects
dc:subject × 15Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1550
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-2564