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
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| LSN: |
0-253-01934-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780253019349 |
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