ABSTRACT
The chapter explores the development of two Andean migrant communities in the U.S. and the transnational links they have created to Peru. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Peru and the U.S., it discusses the challenges Andean migrants face when they engage in activities in their communities of origin and negotiate their divided stakes in sending and receiving countries. The focus of the chapter is on how this conflict of interest is reflected in the power relations that emerge between old and new migrants in the U.S., on the one hand, and the migrant colonies and their home communities in Peru, on the other. The chapter concludes that the transnational engagement reinforces migrants’ own ties of solidarity in the U.S. and deepens existing divisions and conflicts in their home communities at one and the same time.
