Análisis del entorno de recursos de protección social transnacional de los transmigrantes ecuatorianos. Experiencias de los migrantes ecuatorianos que en el periodo 2008-2018 han retornado desde Estados Unidos a la parroquia Cumbe del cantón de Cuenca – Ecuador

Abstract

To talk about migration and human mobility implies to get deep into a subject of diverse complexity which is significantly interweaved with the processes of globalization. To see this from a transnational perspective; it puts in crisis the concept of Nation - State as a space for socialization, identification, belonging; but above at all, as a space for individual and collective social protection. The development of this current work focuses in the last regard with the presentation of the results of the investigation carried out in Cumbe parish from Cuenca canton, which aimed, to analyze the environment of transnational social protection resources in the migratory life of the Ecuadorian migrants who returned during the period 2008-2018 from the United States and who, at the time of the investigation, resided in the Cumbe parish. For this purpose, it was carried out an exploratory research through a qualitative methodology, in which deep semi-structured interviews were applied to 17 Ecuadorian citizens, collecting data from their own experiences, and personal memories about the social protection resources that they have accessed from different environments, and places in the migratory process; on the other hand, getting deep into the theoretical contributions and conceptual categories immersed in the subject of study which have allowed the methodological orientation, and the presentation of results that the reader can review throughout the text.