Transnational migration: a view from Colombia

This article presents the preliminary results of an ongoing research projec t on US-bound Colombian migration from the cities of Call and Pereira. The project identified a dense web of economic, political, and socio-cultural t ransnational relations connecting migrants and their places of origin. Thes e relations are heterogeneous and differentiated; what some scholars refer to as transnational communities are, in fact, fragmented by class, regional ism, ethnic cleavages and dominant stereotypes of Colombians as drug traffi ckers. We observed a complex transnational held of action, but not the form ation of a transnational community.