El Norte or Bust!: How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Latin American Town

by David M. Stoll

In this unexpected story of a financial bubble and collapse, David Stoll puts a compelling human face on the global economic crisis. Tracing the desperate plight of Latin Americans moving north in search of higher wages, he shows how for the Mayas of Nebaj, an indigenous town in Guatemala that is running out of land, the biggest challenge is finding employment for their youth. The Nebajenses have tried to solve that problem by using U.S. development...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442220686
• ISBN13: 9781442220683
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary