From "mud houses" to "wasted houses": remittances and housing in rural highland Ecuador

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Autor(a) principal: Codesal,Diana Mata
Data de Publicação: 2014
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: REMHU (Online)
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-85852014000100016
Resumo: Migration is often aimed to build migrants' own house in their places of origin. In rural highland Ecuador remittances sent from the US are habitually used to build houses which have changed the housing landscape of many villages. This paper describes the housing landscape of a village, Xarbán, and how it has changed over the last fifty years due to migration and remittances. It unpacks the reasons why many of the recently built houses remained empty or inhabited by only one or two people. It particularly explores the impact of migrants' legal status abroad on their housing decisions and behaviour. Finally, the article looks for positive impacts of these so-called "wasted houses" on migrants, their relatives and non-migrant villagers. Remittance houses' do have positive effects which are different for female and male villagers.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv From "mud houses" to "wasted houses": remittances and housing in rural highland Ecuador
title From "mud houses" to "wasted houses": remittances and housing in rural highland Ecuador
spellingShingle From "mud houses" to "wasted houses": remittances and housing in rural highland Ecuador
Codesal,Diana Mata
remittances
housing
legal status
gender
Ecuador
title_short From "mud houses" to "wasted houses": remittances and housing in rural highland Ecuador
title_full From "mud houses" to "wasted houses": remittances and housing in rural highland Ecuador
title_fullStr From "mud houses" to "wasted houses": remittances and housing in rural highland Ecuador
title_full_unstemmed From "mud houses" to "wasted houses": remittances and housing in rural highland Ecuador
title_sort From "mud houses" to "wasted houses": remittances and housing in rural highland Ecuador
author Codesal,Diana Mata
author_facet Codesal,Diana Mata
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Codesal,Diana Mata
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv remittances
housing
legal status
gender
Ecuador
topic remittances
housing
legal status
gender
Ecuador
description Migration is often aimed to build migrants' own house in their places of origin. In rural highland Ecuador remittances sent from the US are habitually used to build houses which have changed the housing landscape of many villages. This paper describes the housing landscape of a village, Xarbán, and how it has changed over the last fifty years due to migration and remittances. It unpacks the reasons why many of the recently built houses remained empty or inhabited by only one or two people. It particularly explores the impact of migrants' legal status abroad on their housing decisions and behaviour. Finally, the article looks for positive impacts of these so-called "wasted houses" on migrants, their relatives and non-migrant villagers. Remittance houses' do have positive effects which are different for female and male villagers.
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