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 once...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 9 halftones, 2 charts/graphs
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Integration and Disintegration
  • 1. American Dream, American Work: Fantasies and Realities of Honduran Migrants
  • 2. The Needy, the Greedy, and the Lazy: The Moral Universe of Migration
  • 3. The Ashes of Progress: A Biography after Modernization
  • 4. The Devil Has Been Destroyed: Mediation and Christian Citizenship
  • 5. Justice at a Price: Risk and Regulation in the Global Coffee Market
  • 6. Global Sociality, Postmodernity, and Neopopulism
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index