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This issue of Latin American Perspectives explores contemporary Peruvian migration. It focuses on two main questions: how relations of inequality and structures of domination in Peru drive people from different class, regional, and ethnic background to migrate both internally and internationally; and how migration, in turn, affects such relations and structures. Historically, migration has played a decisive role in shaping racial, ethnic, and class relations in Peru. During the colonial period, European immigration, along with the import of enslaved peoples from Africa and Asia, defined the country's social and racial hierarchy. So did the massive scale of rural-urban migration throughout the twentieth century, mostly amongst the indigenous populations who largely took up bottom-rung positions in the country's urban centers. Today, we are witnessing an exodus of Peruvians of diverse backgrounds migrating beyond Peru's borders. This large-scale emigration, impelled by the effects of more than two decades of neoliberal policies on the country's social and economic fabric, is further shaping the country's racial and class relations today. Moreover, as demonstrated by several articles in this issue, class, race and ethnicity are equally influencing who migrates and where migrants go. In this way, the issue addresses the causes as well as the consequences of Peruvian emigration around the world.

PERUVIAN MIGRATION IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
Issue Editors: Ulla Berg, Karsten Paerregaard, and Ayumi Takenaka

Contents

Introduction
Peruvian Migration in a Global Context
AYUMI TAKENAKA, KARSTEN PAERREGAARD, AND ULLA BERG . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Articles
The Peruvian Diaspora: Portrait of a Migratory Process
JORGE DURAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Leaving to Get Ahead: Assessing the Relationship between
Mobility and Inequality in Peruvian Migration
AYUMI TAKENAKA AND KAREN A . PREN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

The Show Must Go On: The Role of Fiestas in Andean
Transnational Migration
KARSTEN PAERREGAARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Outsourcing Care: How Peruvian Migrants Meet
Transnational Family Obligations
JESSACA B . LEINAWEAVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

Sin Papeles: Middle- and Working-Class Peruvians in Santiago
and South Florida
ELENA SABOGAL AND LORENA NÚÑEZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88

Migration, Gender, and Politics: The 2006 Peruvian
Elections Abroad
ANGELES ESCRIVÁ, URSULA SANTA CRUZ,
AND ANASTASIA BERMÚDEZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

El Quinto Suyo: Contemporary Nation Building and the
Political Economy of Emigration in Peru
ULLA D . BERG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121

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