Historicizing Mobility: Coyoterismo in the Indigenous Ecuadorian Migration Industry

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Transnational migration
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
  • Practices of facilitating travel & migration
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Diasporas and transnational communities

• Legal-political consequences

  • Crime

Migration governance

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Border control
  • Policies on mobility

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • National
  • Rural