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El Norte or bust : how migration fever and microcredit produced a financial crash in a Latin American town / David Stoll.
- 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]
- ©2013
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 281 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Debt is the hidden engine driving undocumented migration to the United States. So argues David Stoll in this powerful chronicle of migrants, moneylenders, and swindlers in the Guatemalan highlands, one of the locales that, collectively, are sending millions of Latin Americans north in search of higher wages.
- Subject
- Microfinance > Guatemala > Nebraj
- Ixil Indians > Guatemala > Nebraj > Economic conditions
- Quiché Indians > Guatemala > Nebraj > Economic conditions
- Emigrant remittances > Guatemala > Nebraj
- Noncitizens > United States > Economic conditions
- Illegal immigration > United States
- Immigrants clandestins > États-Unis > Conditions économiques
- Immigration clandestine > États-Unis
- Illegal immigration
- Noncitizens > Economic conditions
- Economic history
- Emigrant remittances
- Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects
- Microfinance
- Ixil
- Quiche
- Soziale Situation
- Auswanderung
- Kleinkredit
- Schulden
- Armut
- Ekonomiska förhållanden
- Emigranters överföringar av pengar till ursprungslandet
- Mikrofinansiering
- Ixil (folk)
- Illegal invandring
- Quiché (folk)
- Nebaj (Guatemala) > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects
- Nebaj (Guatemala) > Economic conditions
- Guatemala > Nebaj
- United States
- Nebaj
- Guatemala > Nebaj
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-265) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781442220683
- 1442220686
- 9781442220690
- 1442220694
- LCCN
- 2012039571
- 40021844661
- OCLC
- 809616064
- SCSB-10201810
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library