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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
  1. El Norte or bust : how migration fever and microcredit produced a financial crash in a Latin American town / David Stoll.
Published by
  1. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2013]
  2. ©2013
Author
  1. Stoll, David, 1952-

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Description
  1. xiii, 281 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Microfinance > Guatemala > Nebraj
  2. Ixil Indians > Guatemala > Nebraj > Economic conditions
  3. Quiché Indians > Guatemala > Nebraj > Economic conditions
  4. Emigrant remittances > Guatemala > Nebraj
  5. Noncitizens > United States > Economic conditions
  6. Illegal immigration > United States
  7. Immigrants clandestins > États-Unis > Conditions économiques
  8. Immigration clandestine > États-Unis
  9. Illegal immigration
  10. Noncitizens > Economic conditions
  11. Economic history
  12. Emigrant remittances
  13. Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects
  14. Microfinance
  15. Ixil
  16. Quiche
  17. Soziale Situation
  18. Auswanderung
  19. Kleinkredit
  20. Schulden
  21. Armut
  22. Ekonomiska förhållanden
  23. Emigranters överföringar av pengar till ursprungslandet
  24. Mikrofinansiering
  25. Ixil (folk)
  26. Illegal invandring
  27. Quiché (folk)
  28. Nebaj (Guatemala) > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects
  29. Nebaj (Guatemala) > Economic conditions
  30. Guatemala > Nebaj
  31. United States
  32. Nebaj
  33. Guatemala > Nebaj
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-265) and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain