title: Migration and urbanization in Ecuador:  a view from the coast.
abstract: "The present study takes a regional view of urbanization and migration in coastal Ecuador, and presents field data collected [in 1970 and 1971] in the port city of Manta.  This study seeks to account for various national and international influences that work to shape conditions in Manta, and on the coast generally, and to specify and account for patterns of socieconomic inequality, particularly as they relate to migration and urbanization."
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Middleton
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004484:Ecuador; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005843:Geography; D007843:Latin America; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012922:Social Change; D012940:Social Problems; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013020:South America; D014505:Urban Population; D014507:Urbanization
keywords: Americas; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Ecuador; Geographic Factors; Latin America; Migration; Migration, Internal--changes; Population; Population Dynamics; Rural-urban Migration; Social Change; Social Development; Social Problems; Socioeconomic Factors--changes; South America; Spatial Distribution; Urban Spatial Distribution; Urbanization