The Migration of Indigenous Ecuadorian Youth in the Age of the ‘Migration Dream’: Migration as a Collective Effort of a Village to Sustain its Cultural Identity in a Globalised World

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=_4l2U3Ls2O" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=_4l2U3Ls2O</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.46585/cargo.2025.1.148" target="_blank" >10.46585/cargo.2025.1.148</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Migration of Indigenous Ecuadorian Youth in the Age of the ‘Migration Dream’: Migration as a Collective Effort of a Village to Sustain its Cultural Identity in a Globalised World

Original language description

This article focuses on the migration of the young generation in Salasaka within the context of the &apos;age of the migration dream&apos; (Bude and Dürrschmidt 2010), and on three approaches to answering the question of why people migrate through migration theories: the economic approach, the sys-temic approach, and the narrative approach. It discusses the decision-making processes relating to migration, which are key to understanding perceptions and attitudes towards migration within communities. To gather data on this topic, longitudinal observation and interviews were conducted in the village of Salasaka in the Ecuadorian highlands, a community where cultural heritage and cultural identity, as locals understand it, are deeply valued. Nowadays, the youth have developed new ways of maintaining &apos;traditional&apos; customs. They more often move away from the village than their grandparents, who lived in an endogamous environment. The text contributes to a broader understanding of migration as a social phenomenon, particularly in relation to the preservation of cultural heritage in the context of globalisation, as the traditional and the modern become intertwined in the context of an Indigenous village shaped by migration ties. A key concept for understanding migration in this kind of village, as the research found, is collective remittances and the use of modern means to sustain tradition.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Cargo: Journal for Cultural and Social Anthropology

ISSN

1212-4923

e-ISSN

2336-1956

Volume of the periodical

23

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

26-52

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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