American value : migrants, money, and meaning in El Salvador and the United States / David Pedersen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pedersen, David.

Series:

Chicago studies in practices of meaning

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Salvadorans--United States--Economic conditions.

Salvadorans.

Salvadorans--United States--Social conditions.

Emigrant remittances--El Salvador.

Emigrant remittances.

Salvadorans--United States.

International relations.

Social conditions.

Economic conditions.

United States.

El Salvador--Foreign relations--United States.

El Salvador.

United States--Foreign relations--El Salvador.

Physical Description:

xx, 316 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Summary:

El Salvador has transformed dramatically over the past half-century. Historically reliant on cash crops like coffee and cotton, the country emerged from a civil war in 1992 to find much of its national wealth now coming from money sent home by a massive emigrant workforce In the United States. In American Value. David Pedersen examines this new way of life across two places: Intipucá in El Salvador and Washington. DC, In the United States. Drawing on Charles S. Peirce to craft a highly innovative semeiotic of value, he critically explains how the apparent worthiness of migrants and their money is shaping a transnational moral world with implications well beyond El Salvador and the United States. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 A Roadmap for Remittances 28

Part I

2 Brushing against the Golden Grain 55

3 Melting Fields of Snow 83

4 The Intrusion of Uncomfortable Wars, Illegals, and Remittances 116

Part II

5 The Wealth of Pueblos 147

6 Immigrant Entrepreneurship 167

Part III

7 Welcome to Intipucá City 191

8 The World in a Park 209

Finale

9 Options and Models for the Future 235.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-300) and index.

ISBN:

9780226653396

0226653390

9780226653402

0226653404

OCLC:

783150174