The broken village : coffee, migration, and globalization in Honduras /

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

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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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Main Author: Reichman, Daniel R. (Daniel Ross), 1976-
Other title:Coffee, migration, and globalization in Honduras.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Coffee industry > Social aspects > Honduras.
Honduras > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Honduras > Rural conditions.
Table of 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.

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