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From Cuenca to Queens : an anthropological story of transnational migration
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Discussions of transnational migration rarely spare time for the individual stories which can be told by real people. This volume does just that, following the journey of Vicente Quitasaca from Cue...
Discussions of transnational migration rarely spare time for the individual stories which can be told by real people. This volume does just that, following the journey of Vicente Quitasaca from Cuenca in Ecuador to New York City. Ann Miles assesses the impact on his life and on his family.
Details
- Creator
- Ann Miles
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 229 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 0292796668, 9780292796669, 0292702051, 9780292702059, 0292701713, 9780292701717
- OCLC
- ocn614484749
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and index.
- English.
- From Cuenca to Queens: transnational lives -- Transnational migration: economies and identities -- Family matters -- Rosa -- Lucho -- The children -- Vicente -- Lives and stories
Subjects
- Ecuadorian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
- Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
- Ecuadorians -- Migrations.
- Transnationalism -- Case studies.
- Ethnology -- Case studies.
- Ecuador -- Emigration and immigration -- Case studies.
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Case studies.
- Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
- Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.
- Cuenca (Ecuador) -- Biography.