Title El Norte or bust : how migration fever and microcredit produced a financial crash in a Latin American town / David Stoll.

Publication Info.	Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2013]
	©2013

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	330.97281 S875E	Check Shelf

Description	xiii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-265) and index.
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.
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	Nebaj (Guatemala) -- Economic conditions.
	Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst00908694
	Noncitizens -- United States -- Economic conditions.
	Quiché Indians -- Guatemala -- Nebraj -- Economic conditions.
	Emigrant remittances -- Guatemala -- Nebraj.
	Microfinance -- Guatemala -- Nebraj.
	Ixil Indians -- Guatemala -- Nebraj -- Economic conditions.
	Microfinance. (OCoLC)fst01019841
Local Subject	Undocumented immigration -- United States
Subject	Nebaj (Guatemala) -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects.
	Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Illegal immigration -- United States
	Emigrant remittances. (OCoLC)fst00908685
	Guatemala -- Nebaj. (OCoLC)fst01288911
ISBN	9781442220683 (cloth ; alk. paper)
	1442220686 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Standard No.	40021844661

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