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FRONTIER MIGRATION AS A MULTI‐STAGE PHENOMENON REFLECTING THE INTERPLAY OF MACROFORCES AND LOCAL CONDITIONS: THE ECUADOR AMAZON
Author(s) -
Brown Lawrence A.,
Sierra Rodrigo
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/j.1435-5597.1994.tb00614.x
Subject(s) - amazon rainforest , frontier , phenomenon , geography , economic geography , settlement (finance) , destinations , internal migration , space (punctuation) , tourism , sociology , economics , ecology , demography , archaeology , epistemology , computer science , population , finance , payment , biology , operating system , philosophy
This paper considers frontier migration to the Ecuador Amazon as a multistage phenomenon, examining the entire migration stream from its origins in highland and coastal locales of Ecuador, to intermediate stops outside and within the Amazon, to final Amazon destinations. The approach is one where models pertaining to regional development, migration, and pioneer activity are treated as complementary to one another meshed with a qualitative knowledge of place. It is shown that frontier set element patterns reflect the composite of these models, a maturing space‐economy, and the interaction of local characteristics with exogenesis circumstances representing national and international contexts.