TY - GEN digital ID - 131910751 TI - Transforming Ethnicity : Youth and Migration in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes PY - 2023 SN - 9783031300974 9783031300967 9783031300981 9783031300998 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy and psychology of culture KW - Sociology of culture KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - Sociology KW - Ethnology. Cultural anthropology KW - etnologie KW - sociologie KW - cultuur KW - gezin KW - Latin America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131910751 AB - This book explores how global migration transforms local dynamics in the communal life of indigenous peoples in southern Ecuador. At its heart, the focus is on Cañar, a region marked by more than seven decades of migratory flows to the United States. Cañar features one of the areas of greatest human mobility in the entire Andean Region. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews and dialogue-based workshops with indigenous youths, the author shows how migratory processes and forms of self-representation have challenged the idea that ethnic identity is tied to fixed cultural patterns. He further shows how youths' transnational experiences reconfigure generational differences within indigenous communities. In analyzing how transnational life, adultcentrism, gender power dynamics, and institutional discourses intersect in the production of indigenous youths' subjectivities, this book provides an innovative approach to the studies of indigenous peoples and migration. Jorge Daniel Vásquez is a Doctor in Education, a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and an upcoming Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of International Service at American University. ER -