Landscape of Migration by Ben Nobbs-Thiessen PAPERBACK 9781469656106

The University of North Carolina Press

Landscape of MigrationMobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present\nAuthor(s): Ben Nobbs-Thiessen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781469656106, 978-1469656106\nSynopsis\nIn the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the \""March to the East.\"" In an impoverished country dependent on highland mining, the MNR sought to convert the nation's vast \""undeveloped\"" Amazonian frontier into farmland, hoping to achieve food security, territorial integrity, and demographic balance. To do so, they encouraged hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Bolivians to relocate from the \""overcrowded\"" Andes to the tropical lowlands, but also welcomed surprising transnational migrant streams, including horse-and-buggy Mennonites from Mexico and displaced Ok.