Global Heartland : Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking /

Mostrar otras versiones (2)

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 re...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Miraftab, Faranak (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Multiculturalism.
Immigrants > Social conditions.
Ethnic relations.
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Economic history.
Economic development > Social aspects.
Communities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Economic development > Social aspects > Illinois > Beardstown.
Immigrants > Illinois > Beardstown > Social conditions.
Multiculturalism > Illinois > Beardstown.
Communities > Illinois > Beardstown.
Illinois > Beardstown.
Beardstown (Ill.) > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Beardstown (Ill.) > Social conditions > 21st century.
Beardstown (Ill.) > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects > History.
Beardstown (Ill.) > Ethnic relations > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (308 pages).
ISBN:9780253019424

Ejemplares similares