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Myths of ethnicity and nation : immigration, work, and identity in the Belize banana industry /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Moberg, Mark, 1959-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [1997]
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Banana trade > Belize > History. Banana trade > Belize > Employees > History. Agricultural laborers > Belize > History. Foreign workers > Belize > History. Belize > Ethnic relations.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : caste and class in southern Belize
Culture and history in the forgotten district
Boom, bust, and monopoly control : cycles of banana production in Belize
Local and international contexts of production
Out of work in the fields of gold : Belizean labor in the banana industry
Central American immigration : the reshaping of a labor market
The construction of ethnicity on banana farms
Transnational identities and trajectories in the banana belt
Toward paths that unite : strategies of nationhood and development
Epilogue : the crushing of Banderas Unidas.