The Otavalo Kichwas are an indigenous Ecuadorian community that has been characterized by its transnational migration during the last decades. Colombia was one of the first destinations of this population and Bogota has become one of the most important migratory nodes, both nationally and transnationally. The Kichwa-Bogotá have a long process of migration and settlement in the capital of Colombia dating back to the 1930s. This allowed the population to be recognized as a national ethnic group and in the decade of 2000 was recognized, within the framework of the multicultural policies of Colombia, under the figure of indigenous council, the Cabildo Mayor Indígena Kichwa in the city. According to that Kichwa are read by the Colombian State in Bogota as both foreign and national indigenous people. The purpose of this master's thesis is to show how Bogota has been configured as part of a Kichwa transnational social field, in which the migratory networks are juxtaposed with state processes framed in multicultural policies and in migratory policies on the margins of the Colombian State.
