This article presents the preliminary results of an ongoing research project
on US-bound Colombian migration from the cities of Cali and Pereira. The
project identi?ed a dense web of economic, political, and socio-cultural
transnational relations connecting migrants and their places of origin. These
relations are heterogeneous and differentiate d; what some scholars refer to
as transnational communities are, in fact, fragmented by class, regionalism,
ethnic cleavages and dominant stereotypes of Colombians as drug traf?ckers.
We observed a complex transnational ?eld of action, but not the formation
of a transnational community