LEADER 04231nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910779337103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-84819-8 010 $a1-4422-2069-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000000709075 035 $a(EBL)1077407 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000783872 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12407278 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783872 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10761111 035 $a(PQKB)11640010 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1077407 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1077407 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10629412 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL416069 035 $a(OCoLC)851263016 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000709075 100 $a20121022d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 13$aEl Norte or bust$b[electronic resource] $ehow migration fever and microcredit produced a financial crash in a Latin American town /$fDavid Stoll 210 $aLanham, Md. $cRowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (297 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4422-2068-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $a"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."- from Amazon.com 606 $aMicrofinance$zGuatemala$zNebraj 606 $aIxil Indians$zGuatemala$zNebraj$xEconomic conditions 606 $aQuiche? Indians$zGuatemala$zNebraj$xEconomic conditions 606 $aEmigrant remittances$zGuatemala$zNebraj 606 $aNoncitizens$zUnited States$xEconomic conditions 606 $aIllegal immigration 607 $aNebaj (Guatemala)$xEmigration and immigration$xEconomic aspects 607 $aNebaj (Guatemala)$xEconomic conditions 615 0$aMicrofinance 615 0$aIxil Indians$xEconomic conditions. 615 0$aQuiche? Indians$xEconomic conditions. 615 0$aEmigrant remittances 615 0$aNoncitizens$xEconomic conditions. 615 0$aIllegal immigration. 676 $a330.97281/72 700 $aStoll$b David$f1952-$01559546 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779337103321 996 $aEl Norte or bust$93824775 997 $aUNINA