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Adds a crucial human dimension to statistics about immigration and the macro impact of transnational migration on the global economy Reveals how transnational migration becomes a symbol of failure, hope, resignation, and promise for poor people in struggling economies Transnational migration is a controversial and much-discussed issue in both the popular media and the social sciences, but at its heart migration is about individual people making the difficult choice to leave their families and communities in hopes of achieving greater economic prosperity. Vicente Quitasaca is one of these people. In 1995 he left his home in the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca to live and work in New York City. This anthropological story of Vicente's migration and its effects on his life and the lives of his parents and siblings adds a crucial human dimension to statistics about immigration and the macro impact of transnational migration on the global economy.

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Ann Miles is Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.

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