Zbinden Gysin, Karin (2013). Tyrol here and there. The influence of growing transnationalisation on the development of the colony Pozuzo in Peruvian lowlan In: Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Agrarökonomie 22 (pp. 137-146). Wien: Facultas Verlag
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Settlement colonies represent a way of life “here” as well as “there”, because of their often transnational relations, the importance in discourses of national integration and the tendencies for re-localisations. Pozuzo, in the lowlands of Peru, is a largely “failed” settlement colony, which for three decades has now been moving more and more from the periphery to the center of modernism. Relationships that have been established from Tyrol actually contribute to increasing trans-nationalisation. How do the descendants of the settlers experience, frame and reflect their bonds with Tyrol and Peru, past and present, agrarian and industrial habitus? The case study shows how – due to transnational relations – peasant values, attitudes and strategies change in dealing with the old and new “homeland”.