Böcker i Studies in Latin America-serien

Addresses the relationships between stratification and social mobility in contemporary Argentina, using an ethnographic study on class relations in the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires.

Offers an ethnographic study of the founding and maintenance of social organisations by emigrants from Ecuador in politically contested US public spaces. The book posits that racialization, an inherent characteristic of Global Apartheid, uniquely influenced the construction of complex Ecuadorian migrant identities in the US.

Examines the precarious state of languages in coastal Belize. Language endangerment studies generally focus on the loss of a minority language to a European language. Tropical Tongues presents a fresh perspective on language shift and loss by examining how large-scale economic restructuring can unsettle relationships among minority languages.