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

Author: Stoll, David, 1952-

ImprintLanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2013.

Descriptionxiii, 281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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