El Norte or Bust! : How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Latin American Town.

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"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 o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stoll, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012.
Temas:
Ixil Indians > Guatemala > Nebaj > Economic conditions.
Microfinance > Guatemala > Nebaj.
Quiché Indians > Guatemala > Nebaj > Economic conditions.
Ixil > Guatemala > Nebaj > Conditions économiques.
Quiché > Guatemala > Nebaj > Conditions économiques.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Comparative.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
Economic history
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects
Microfinance
Nebaj (Guatemala) > Economic conditions.
Nebaj (Guatemala) > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Guatemala > Nebaj
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Maps and Tables; Preface; Part I. THE AMERICAN DREAM COMES TO THE CUCHUMATANES; Chapter One. Great Expectations in a Guatemalan Town; Chapter Two. A Town of Many Projects; Chapter Three. Nebaj Goes North; Chapter Four. Indenture Travel; Part II. THE NEBAJ BUBBLE AND HOW IT BURST; Chapter Five. Borrowers, Moneylenders, and Banks; Chapter Six. Projects and Their Penumbra-Swindles; Chapter Seven. Losing Husbands to El Norte; Part III. COMPARISONS AND EXTRAPOLATIONS; Chapter Eight. Dreams and Pyramid Schemes; Chapter Nine. The Right to Not Migrate; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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