El Norte or Bust! :: How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Latin American Town.
"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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| Zusammenfassung: | "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. As an anthropologist, Stoll has witnessed the Ixil Mayas of Nebaj grow in numbers, run out of land, and struggle to find employment. Aid agencies have provided microcredits to turn the Nebajenses into entrepreneurs, but credit alone cannot boost productivity in crowded mountain valleys, which is why many recipients have invested the loans in smuggling themselves to the United States. Back home, their remittances have inflated the price of land so high that only migrants can afford to buy it. Thus, more Nebajenses have felt obliged to borrow the large sums needed to go north. So many have done so that, even before the Great Recession hit the U.S. in 2008, many were unable to find enough work to pay back their loans, triggering a financial crash back home. Now migrants and their families are losing the land and homes they have pledged as collateral. Chain migration, moneylending, and large families, Stoll proposes, have turned into pyramid schemes in which the poor transfer risk and loss to their near and dear." -- |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781442220690 1442220694 |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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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| contents | 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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| spelling | Stoll, David. El Norte or Bust! : How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Latin American Town. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012. 1 online resource (297 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Print version record. 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. "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. As an anthropologist, Stoll has witnessed the Ixil Mayas of Nebaj grow in numbers, run out of land, and struggle to find employment. Aid agencies have provided microcredits to turn the Nebajenses into entrepreneurs, but credit alone cannot boost productivity in crowded mountain valleys, which is why many recipients have invested the loans in smuggling themselves to the United States. Back home, their remittances have inflated the price of land so high that only migrants can afford to buy it. Thus, more Nebajenses have felt obliged to borrow the large sums needed to go north. So many have done so that, even before the Great Recession hit the U.S. in 2008, many were unable to find enough work to pay back their loans, triggering a financial crash back home. Now migrants and their families are losing the land and homes they have pledged as collateral. Chain migration, moneylending, and large families, Stoll proposes, have turned into pyramid schemes in which the poor transfer risk and loss to their near and dear." -- Publisher's Description. Includes bibliographical references and index. Ixil Indians Guatemala Nebaj Economic conditions. Microfinance Guatemala Nebaj. Nebaj (Guatemala) Economic conditions. Nebaj (Guatemala) Emigration and immigration Economic aspects. Quiché Indians Guatemala Nebaj Economic conditions. Ixil Guatemala Nebaj Conditions économiques. Quiché Guatemala Nebaj Conditions économiques. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Economic Conditions. bisacsh BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Economic History. bisacsh BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Economics Comparative. bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE Economic Conditions. bisacsh Economic history fast Emigration and immigration Economic aspects fast Microfinance fast Guatemala Nebaj fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRFbbcDFmwMGW83MQPDY has work: El Norte or bust (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFPhdjY8hkjMWjPHH8D6rq https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: 9781442220683 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBU FWS_PDA_EBU https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=507660 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Stoll, David El Norte or Bust! : How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Latin American Town. 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. 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. bisacsh BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Economic History. bisacsh BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Economics Comparative. bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE Economic Conditions. bisacsh Economic history fast Emigration and immigration Economic aspects fast Microfinance fast |
| title | El Norte or Bust! : How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Latin American Town. |
| title_auth | El Norte or Bust! : How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Latin American Town. |
| title_exact_search | El Norte or Bust! : How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Latin American Town. |
| title_full | El Norte or Bust! : How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Latin American Town. |
| title_fullStr | El Norte or Bust! : How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Latin American Town. |
| title_full_unstemmed | El Norte or Bust! : How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Latin American Town. |
| title_short | El Norte or Bust! : |
| title_sort | el norte or bust how migration fever and microcredit produced a financial crash in a latin american town |
| title_sub | How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Latin American Town. |
| topic | 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. bisacsh BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Economic History. bisacsh BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Economics Comparative. bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE Economic Conditions. bisacsh Economic history fast Emigration and immigration Economic aspects fast Microfinance fast |
| topic_facet | Ixil Indians Guatemala Nebaj Economic conditions. Microfinance Guatemala Nebaj. Nebaj (Guatemala) Economic conditions. Nebaj (Guatemala) Emigration and immigration Economic aspects. 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 Guatemala Nebaj |
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