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From Cuenca to Queens: An Anthropological Story of Transnational Migration (repost)

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From Cuenca to Queens: An Anthropological Story of Transnational Migration (repost)

From Cuenca to Queens: An Anthropological Story of Transnational Migration by Ann Miles
English | May 1, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0292702051 | 247 pages | PDF | 4,8 MB

Transnational migration is a controversial and much-discussed issue in both the popular media and the social sciences, but at its heart migration is about individual people making the difficult choice to leave their families and communities in hopes of achieving greater economic prosperity.

Vicente Quitasaca is one of these people. In 1995, he left his home in the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca to live and work in New York City. This anthropological story of Vicente's migration and its effects on his life and the lives of his parents and siblings adds a crucial human dimension to statistics about immigration and the macro impact of transnational migration on the global economy. Anthropologist Ann Miles has known the Quitasacas since 1989. Her long acquaintance with the family allows her to delve deeply into the factors that eventually impelled the oldest son to make the difficult and dangerous journey to the United States as an undocumented migrant.