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El Norte or bust : how migration fever and microcredit produced a financial crash in a Latin American town
- Title
- El Norte or bust : how migration fever and microcredit produced a financial crash in a Latin American town / David Stoll.
- Author
- Stoll, David, 1952-
- Publication
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2013]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-207 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 281 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Nebaj (Guatemala) > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects
- Emigrant remittances > Guatemala > Nebraj
- Nebaj (Guatemala) > Economic conditions
- Quiché Indians > Guatemala > Nebraj > Economic conditions
- Illegal aliens > United States > Economic conditions
- Ixil Indians > Guatemala > Nebraj > Economic conditions
- Microfinance > Guatemala > Nebraj
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-265) and index.
- Contents
- Great expectations in a Guatemalan town -- A town of many projects -- Nebaj goes north -- Indenture travel -- Borrowers, moneylenders, and banks -- Projects and their penumbra-swindles -- Losing husbands to El Norte -- Dreams and pyramid schemes -- The right to not migrate.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-207
- ISBN
- 9781442220683
- 1442220686
- 9781442220690
- 1442220694
- LCCN
- 2012039571
- 40021844661
- OCLC
- 809616064
- Author
- Stoll, David, 1952-
- Title
- El Norte or bust : how migration fever and microcredit produced a financial crash in a Latin American town / David Stoll.
- Publisher
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-265) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40021844661
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-207