From wage migration to debt migration?: Easy credit, failure in el norte, and foreclosure in a bubble economy of the western Guatemalan highlands

Latin American Perspectives

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 123-142

  Stoll, David ^a  

^a Department of Anthropology   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Credit; Debt; Guatemala; Ixils; Mayas; Migration; NGOs; Peasants

Indexed keywords

CREDIT PROVISION; DEBT; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LABOR MARKET; MIGRATION; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; RETURN MIGRATION;

GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 76649091253     PISSN: 0094582X     EISSN: 1552678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0094582X09355430     Document Type: Article

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