Doing family on the move: Venezuelan migration in Ecuador.
The article examines Venezuelan family migration projects in two locations in Ecuador: the town of Huaquillas, located on the southern border, and the city of Quito. We argue that some migrant families in both contexts are adopting movement, rather than settlement, as a strategy to reimagine their m...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 52; no. 8; pp. 1987 - 2005 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=192728879&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 192728879 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1369183X 56F jtl: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies issn: 1369183X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2026 vid: 52 iid: 8 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 192728879 10.1080/1369183X.2025.2609029 ppf: 1987 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 413KB tig: atl: Doing family on the move: Venezuelan migration in Ecuador. aug: au: Herrera, Gioconda Mena, Tania Bonilla affil: Department of Sociology and Gender Studies, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, FLACSO Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador su: Xenophobia Families Ecuadorians Social marginality Mass migrations Household moving Internal migration Ecuador Quito (Ecuador) sug: subj: Ecuador Quito (Ecuador) Xenophobia Families Ecuadorians Social marginality Mass migrations Household moving Internal migration keyword: border doing family Families on the move Venezuelan migration ab: The article examines Venezuelan family migration projects in two locations in Ecuador: the town of Huaquillas, located on the southern border, and the city of Quito. We argue that some migrant families in both contexts are adopting movement, rather than settlement, as a strategy to reimagine their migration projects. Remaining on the move is a way to escape from the precarious social conditions, exclusion and xenophobia they endure in many sites of destination in Ecuador and other neighbouring countries. At the same time, moving from one place to another is also a way to reconfigure their migration project as a family project. This is what we call 'doing family'. That is, a way of preserving material and emotional relationships among family members while still on the move, blending moments of separation with reunification and resulting in 'complex spatial and temporary family trajectories' (Jorgensen, in this issue). We adopt the concept of families on the move to assess how movement itself, rather than transnational ties or family social networks, becomes the main way to keep doing family in contexts of social exclusion and hostility. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2026 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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