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oai:doaj.org/article:d368bbdeba5f4f6b83f183e41f336eb1>
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10.14198/OBETS2018.13.2.07>
Abstract
This article has sought to link three specific geographical areas: the Sierra del Austro Ecuadoriano, the province of Madrid and the Spanish levant, with a shared space of significance: affiliation and religious practices; and a minority and heterogeneous identity space: indigenous. In these ‘interlocated’ places, migration processes have made it possible to connect and circulate religious beliefs and practices of Ecuadorian indigenous people on both sides of the Atlantic, affecting both the territories of the country of destination and their places of origin through the creation of transnational families – and even communities – and the circular mobility processes they develop. Based on the analysis of bibliographical sources, statistical information and ethnographic data, the study of the affiliation, religious representations and practices of indigenous migrant people in the country of destination (Spain) and the process of integration into the return to the country of origin (Ecuador) have been deepened, with the intention of knowing the processes of redefining religious identity that are taking place in the personal, family and social spaces of indigenous migrants and migrants and returnees from the Ecuadorian Southern region within the specific area of Ecuador-Spain migration circularity.