ABSTRACT
Using case-studies from those who have moved either transnationally or internally within their own country, international contributors offer various definitions of what it means to make a living on the move.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART I Mobile livelihoods – Regional and historical perspectives
chapter 1|22 pages
Representing the local: Mobile livelihood practices in the Peruvian Central Sierra
Ninna Nyberg Sørensen
chapter 2|16 pages
Mobile minds and socio-economic barriers: Livelihoods and African-American identifications among youth in Nairobi
Bodil Folke Frederiksen
chapter 3|22 pages
Mobility, rootedness, and the Caribbean higgler: Production, consumption and transnational livelihoods CARLAFREEMAN
Carla Freeman
part |2 pages
Part II Livelihoods extended
chapter 4|21 pages
A ‘respectable’ livelihood: Mobility and identity in a Caribbean family
Karen Fog Olwig
chapter 5|20 pages
‘You must win their affection . . .’: Migrants’ social and cultural practices between Peru and Italy
Migrants’ social and cultural practices between Italy
chapter 6|19 pages
Business as usual: Livelihood strategies and migration practice in the Peruvian diaspora
Karsten Paerregaard
chapter 7|16 pages
The moving ‘expert’: A study of mobile professionals in the Cayman Islands and North America
Vered
chapter 8|24 pages
Irse pa’ fuera: The mobile livelihoods of circular migrants between Puerto Rico and the United States
Jorge Duany
part |2 pages
Part III Livelihoods and the transnational return
chapter 9|15 pages
Transnational livelihoods and identities in return migration to the Caribbean: The case of skilled returnees to Jamaica
Elizabeth Thomas-Hope
chapter 10|23 pages
The final move? – Displaced livelihoods and collective returns in Peru and Guatemala
Stepputat