Climbing the "agricultural ladder": Social mobility and motivations for migration in an Ecuadorian Colonist Community

Rural Sociology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-75

  Bates, Diane C ^a   Rudel, Thomas K ^b  

^a The College of New Jersey   (United States)

^b Rutgers and the State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; LANDOWNER; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; MOBILITY; RURAL SOCIETY;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 1842810081     PISSN: 00360112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1526/003601104322919900     Document Type: Article

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