Recorded March 28, 2005
Below is the original description of the event.
In a recent study of rural Ecuadorian communities with historically high levels of transnational migration, David Kyle and Brad Jokisch found that migration patterns have changed significantly. Migrants with legal status in the United States have decamped with their entire families. Those who did not get in before stiffer border controls were implemented must now pay smugglers up to $14,000 to get to the U.S. or try their luck in Spain. Prof. Kyle will discuss the causes and implications of these trends.
David Kyle is Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Davis. He is the author of Transnational Peasants: Migrations, Networks, and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000) and the co-editor of Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). His current book project is Brokered Bodies: The Cross-Cultural Engineering of Contemporary Households.