Introduction: Mapping Latin American Geographies
The origins of this special issue can be traced to conversations four years ago I had with then-JLAG editor, David Robinson. Those early...
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Letter from the Editor
2015 has been a year of change for JLAG. After 13 years of sure-handed guidance from David Robinson, I took over as editor...
Vulnerable and Invisible: Impact of Hurricane Activity on a Peasant Population in a Mountainous Region on the Mexican Pacific Coast
This research illustrates, in the frame of social vulnerability, the consequences of the impact of hurricane ‘Manuel’ in a Pacific coastal landscape of...
A Second Act in Rural Migration in Western Pará: Rural Out-Migration and the Legacy of Amazon Colonization
In this research we consider rural out-migration from two study sites in western Pará in the Amazon Basin. Here we argue that out-migration...
At Home or to the Dump? Household Garbage Management and the Trajectories of Waste in a Rural Mexican Municipio
Garbage management is a key human-environmental issue in Mexico. However, existing research lacks focus on the household as a key actor and biases...
The Future of Lifestyle Migration: Challenges and Opportunities
Lifestyle migration, both as human practice and scholarly field, has blossomed. Initially more extensively documented in the case of Europe (Benson and O’Reilly...
Transnationality and Social Integration within Lifestyle Migration. A comparative study of two cases in Mexico and Spain
International mobility in search of amenity spaces for long-stay tourism is a growing phenomenon. U.S. citizens have practiced this lifestyle migration for decades...
Cultural Imaginaries in the Residential Migration to Cotacachi
How has the small Andean town in Ecuador, Cotacachi come to be “the paradise at the end of the rainbow” as constructed by...
Lifestyle Transmigration: Understanding a Hypermobile Minority in Mérida, Mexico
This article focuses on lifestyle transmigrants who have relocated abroad at least three times, documenting their practices of mobility and responses to structural...
Into the Universe of the Hacienda: Lifestyle Migration, Individualism and Social Dislocation in Vilcabamba, Ecuador
Abstract: The article addresses lifestyle migration from the Global North to the rural valley of Vilcabamba, Ecuador. The life projects of these lifestyle...
