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The broken village : coffee, migration, and globalization in Honduras / Daniel R. Reichman

Author
Reichman, Daniel R. (Daniel Ross), 1976-
Published
Ithaca, NY : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2011.
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Language Note
English.
Contents
American dream, American work : fantasies and realities of Honduran migrants -- The needy, the greedy, and the lazy : the moral universe of migration -- The ashes of progress : a biography after modernization -- The devil has been destroyed : mediation and Christian citizenship -- Justice at a price : risk and regulation in the global coffee market -- Global sociality, postmodernity, and neopopulism.
Summary
In The Broken Village, Daniel R. Reichman tells the story of a remote village in Honduras that transformed almost overnight from a sleepy coffee-growing community to a hotbed of undocumented migration to and from the United States. The small village -- called here by the pseudonym La Quebrada -- was once home to a thriving coffee economy. Recently, it has become dependent on migrants working in distant places like Long Island and South Dakota, who live in ways that most Honduran townspeople struggle to comprehend or explain. Reichman explores how the new "migration economy" has upended cultural ideas of success and failure, family dynamics, and local politics. - Back cover
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9780801463082 (ebook)
0801463084
9780801463075 (electronic bk.)
0801463076 (electronic bk.)
9780801450129 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0801450128 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780801477294 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0801477298 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-204) and index.
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