Ecuadorians in Montreal
The article presents the first results of field research on Ecuadorian immigration to Montreal. The sources we used comprise both quantitative data and the life histories of fifteen individuals who arrived in Montreal between 1966 and 2003. The article explores the long- and short-term expectations that induced Ecuadorians to migrate, the image they had of Canada and what they envisaged the host country would offer them, as well as their personal evaluations of the process of settlement and integration and their individual pre- and post-migration experience.