Introduction
Welcome to the site Internal Migration from the Andes to the City: The Case of Lima, Peru! This is a collaboration project between the Spanish and Portuguese Department and the Center for Latin American Studies. In this site, you will find information about the migration in Peru in a accesible and friendly way.
What is Internal Migration?
While migrations in general are understood as human mobility processes that has been taken place since the beginning of human history, internal migrations are a specific type in which people migrate from their original region to a new city within the same country. Usually, this type of migration involves leaving a rural area to move to a city, and in postcolonial countries this is often the case as the main cities, including the capitals, are more “develop” due to centralization.
Peru is one of these countries. Its capital, the city of Lima, has undergone important changes as the results of internal migration waves, specially those that involves the movement of people from the Andes regions of the country. Since the decade of 1940, different groups of people have settled in the city with the desire of overcome poverty, and food scarcity, to scape violence, etc. In this site, you will take a look into this fascinating phenomenon that is currently an ongoing one!
What’s Available?
This website is divided in four main subtopics, in which you will find texts, images, audios and videos related to each of them.
The “Why” of migrating to Lima
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