The broken village : coffee, migration, and globalization in Honduras / Daniel R. Reichman.
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...
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| Other title: | Coffee, migration, and globalization in Honduras. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
ILR Press,
2011.
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| 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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| Physical Description: | x, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-204) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780801450129 (cloth : alk. paper) 0801450128 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801477294 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0801477298 (pbk. : alk. paper) |