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El Norte or Bust! - How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Latin American Town (Hardcover)
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El Norte or Bust! - How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Latin American Town (Hardcover)
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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.
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