Global Heartland - Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Indiana University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Framing the Global
Release date:	2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Faranak Miraftab
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	308
ISBN-13:	978-0-253-01934-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General
LSN:	0-253-01934-6
Barcode:	9780253019349

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!