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Ecuadorian Migration and Diaspora

Diaspora

INTO Ecuador: Spanish and, more recently, LEBANESE and Syrian families who became prominent in Guayaquil commerce and politics; Italians; Chinese, whose CHIFA restaurants are in every Ecuadorian town and whose chaulafรกn is now an Ecuadorian dish; Jewish refugees in the 1930s-40s; Colombians and, since 2015, a very large VENEZUELAN arrival which has changed the street food of Quito and Guayaquil. OUT: the 1999-2001 exodus after the bank collapse and dollarisation, above all from Azuay and Caรฑar to SPAIN and to NEW YORK, ITALY and the United States โ€” Ecuadorian restaurants, hornado and llapingachos in Queens and Madrid, and remittances that rebuilt the southern highlands.

Atlas โ€” where and when

Where in the world

Communities and languages

Languages: Spanish

What is recorded

  • The 1999 banking collapse and subsequent dollarisation produced large-scale emigration, concentrated in Azuay and Caรฑar, to Spain, Italy and the United States. Chinese migration produced the chifa restaurant, now present in essentially every Ecuadorian town, and Lebanese and Syrian families established themselves in Guayaquil commerce from the late nineteenth century. documented
  • The banking collapse and dollarisation, and the emigration that followed โ€” chiefly from Azuay and Caรฑar to Spain, Italy and the United States. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • migrated to Spanish Foodways documented

    The post-1999 emigration, chiefly from Azuay and Caรฑar to Spain.

  • related to Chinese documented

    Chifa restaurants and chaulafรกn are in every Ecuadorian town and are now Ecuadorian food.

  • related to Levantine Foodways documented

    Lebanese and Syrian settlement in Guayaquil from the late nineteenth century.

  • related to Venezuelan Cuisine documented

    Large Venezuelan arrival since 2015 has changed the street food of Quito and Guayaquil.

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