This article presents the preliminary results of an ongoing research project on US-bound Colombian migration from the cities of Cali and Pereira. The project identified a dense web of economic, political, and socio-cultural transnational relations connecting migrants and their places of origin. These relations are heterogeneous and differentiated; what some scholars refer to as transnational communities are, in fact, fragmented by class, regionalism, ethnic cleavages and dominant stereotypes of Colombians as drug traffickers. We observed a complex transnational field of action, but not the formation of a transnational community.
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Guarnizo, L. E., & Díaz, L. M. (1999). Transnational migration: A view from Colombia. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 22(2), 397–421. https://doi.org/10.1080/014198799329530
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