Global Heartland : Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking Paperback / softback
by Faranak Miraftab
Part of the Framing the Global series
Paperback / softback
Description
Global Heartland is the account of diverse, dispossessed, and displaced people brought together in a former sundown town in Illinois.
Recruited to work in the local meat-processing plant, African Americans, Mexicans, and West Africans re-create the town in unexpected ways.
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in the US, Mexico, and Togo, Faranak Miraftab shows how this workforce is produced for the global labor market; how the displaced workers' transnational lives help them stay in these jobs; and how they negotiate their relationships with each other across the lines of ethnicity, race, language, and nationality as they make a new home.
Beardstown is not an exception but an example of local-global connections that make for local development.
Focusing on a locality in a non-metropolitan region, this work contributes to urban scholarship on globalization by offering a fresh perspective on politics and materialities of placemaking.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:308 pages, 30 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:07/01/2016
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- ISBN:9780253019349
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:308 pages, 30 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:07/01/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9780253019349
