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La Chulla Vida: Gender, Migration, and the Family in Andean Ecuador and New York City (Gender and Globalization)
Jason Pribilsky
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Description for La Chulla Vida: Gender, Migration, and the Family in Andean Ecuador and New York City (Gender and Globalization)
Hardcover. Chronicling the experience of young Andean families as their lives extend between the Ecuadorian highlands and New York City, this book takes an in-depth look at transnational labor migration and gender identities. It offers an account of the ways in which young men and women in these two locales navigate their lives. Num Pages: 312 pages, 26 illustrations, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 1KLSE; JFFN; JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 617.
Chronicling the experience of young Andean families as their lives extend between the Ecuadorian highlands and New York City, this book takes an in-depth look at transnational labor migration and gender identities. Jason Pribilsky offers an engrossing and sensitive account of the ways in which young men and women in these two locales navigate their lives, exploring the impact of gender, generation, and new forms of wealth in a single Andean community. Migration has been a part of the Andes for centuries, yet the effects of transnational labor on the individuals and communities remain largely undocumented. The author draws on ... Read more
Chronicling the experience of young Andean families as their lives extend between the Ecuadorian highlands and New York City, this book takes an in-depth look at transnational labor migration and gender identities. Jason Pribilsky offers an engrossing and sensitive account of the ways in which young men and women in these two locales navigate their lives, exploring the impact of gender, generation, and new forms of wealth in a single Andean community. Migration has been a part of the Andes for centuries, yet the effects of transnational labor on the individuals and communities remain largely undocumented. The author draws on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815631194
SKU
V9780815631194
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Ref
99-55
About Jason Pribilsky
Jason Pribilsky is assistant professor of anthropology at Whitman College.
Reviews for La Chulla Vida: Gender, Migration, and the Family in Andean Ecuador and New York City (Gender and Globalization)
La Chulla Vida is a significant and challenging contribution to migrant studies. It not only provides an unusual and detailed case study within an Andean context, but by focusing on gender and family, also enlarges the terms of the dialogue and discussion of migration studies. A timely account of contemporary transnational labor migration to New York City and its effects ... Read more