From "mud houses" to "wasted houses": remittances and housing in rural highland Ecuador
Migration is often aimed to build migrants' own house in their places of origin. In rural highland Ecuador remittances sent from the US are habitually used to build houses which have changed the housing landscape of many villages. This paper describes the housing landscape of a village, Xarbán,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centro Scalabriniano de Estudos Migratórios
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| Series: | REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-85852014000100016&lng=en&tlng=en |