Peruvians Dispersed: A Global Ethnography of Migration
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This book presents a comparative study of Peruvian transnational migration to the United States, Spain, Japan and Argentina. It applies a multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork approach to study is the multicultural life-world of Peruvians and the economic, social, political and ritual relations that link them together in a diasporic network across national boundaries and tie them to their country of origin. The book has three aims: 1) to examine how Peruvians create networks and design strategies to cope with the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion that mediate their incorporation into the receiving societies and achieve physical and social mobility, 2) to explore how the experience of migration and adaptation to their new countries of residence transforms Peruvians’ own ideas of class, nationality, ethnicity and regionality, and 3) to use the Peruvian material to discuss more general aspects of contemporary globalization processes by comparing not only migrant practices and institutions in different parts of the world but also migration policies and emergent multicultural societies in the industrialized world (the European Union, the United States, Japan and to a smaller extend Argentina). Analytically, the study operates on two levels. On the one hand, it draws on ethnographic data gathered in particular localities in the United States, Spain, Japan and Argentina to analyze a variety of issues such as livelihoods, family networks, religious institutions, migrant organizations, identity processes, and economic and social ties with Peru. On the other hand, it explores the comparative dimension of Peruvian migration by locating the ethnographic in-depth studies of particular migrant communities in Spain, the United States, Japan and Argentina within a broader economic and political context.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Larham, MD |
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| Publisher | Lexington Books |
| Number of pages | 271 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780739118375 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
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