Abstract
Relying on a perspective that emphasizes the role of gender and race, this chapter examines Cuban, Haitian and Venezuelan migration to Ecuador between 2010 and 2016. Based on ethnographic work in two neighborhoods in Quito and semi-structured interviews conducted with migrants, it traces the experiences of these three groups. The work underscores similarities in the dynamics of South-North and South-South migration. More critically, it illustrates how bleak economic conditions coupled with poor migratory tradition in southern destination countries such as Ecuador deter definitive settlement, undermine the establishment of stable transnational links and push people into becoming transit migrants, even though their original aim was permanent settlement. Migrants’ narratives about their trajectory and their experience in Quito demonstrate that this transit state is not a rational ex ante choice made at the beginning of their migration but rather one that takes shape over the course of their experience.
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