Title Landscape of migration : mobility and environmental change on Bolivia's tropical frontier, 1952 to the present / Ben Nobbs-Thiessen

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 324 pages) : illustrations Series Flows, migrations, and exchanges Flows, migrations, and exchanges. Contents Moving pictures : narrative, aesthetic, and Bolivia's frontier imaginary -- Military bases and rubber tires : Okinawans and Mennonites at the margins of nation, revolution, and empire, 1952-1968 -- Abandonment issues : speaking to the state from the Andes and Amazonia, 1952-1968 -- To minister or administer : faith and frontier development in revolutionary and authoritarian Bolivia, 1952-1982 -- A sort of backwoods guerrilla warfare : Mexican Mennonites and the South American soy boom, 1967-present Summary "In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the "March to the East." They encouraged hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Bolivians to relocate from the "overcrowded" Andes to the tropical lowlands, but also welcomed surprising transnational migrant streams, including horse-and-buggy Mennonites from Mexico and displaced Okinawans from across the Pacific. Ben Nobbs-Thiessen details the multifaceted results of these migrations on the environment of the South American interior"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Migration, Internal -- Bolivia -- Santa Cruz (Department) -- History -- 20th century Agriculture and state -- Bolivia -- Santa Cruz (Department) -- History -- 20th century Indigenous peoples -- Colonization -- Bolivia -- Santa Cruz (Department) -- History -- 20th century Mennonites -- Colonization -- Bolivia -- Santa Cruz (Department) -- History -- 20th century Ryukyuans -- Colonization -- Bolivia -- Santa Cruz (Department) -- History -- 20th century SCIENCE -- Environmental Science. Agriculture and state Emigration and immigration Mennonites -- Colonization Migration, Internal Politics and government Bolivia -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century Bolivia -- Politics and government -- 20th century. Bolivia -- History -- Revolution, 1952. Bolivia Bolivia -- Santa Cruz (Department) Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469656120 1469656124 9781469656113 1469656116

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