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

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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...

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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Global Heartland
  • Part I: Beardstown: A Place in the World
  • 1 Welcome to Porkopolis
  • 2 It All Changed Overnight
  • Part II: Displaced Labor
  • 3 Michoacán's Largest Export Is People
  • 4 Winning the Lottery in Togo
  • 5 Detroit: "The First Third World City of the U.S."
  • Part III: Outsourced Lives
  • 6 Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction
  • Part IV: We Wanted Workers, We Got People
  • 7 We Wanted Workers
  • 8 We Got People
  • Conclusion: The Global in My Backyard
  • Appendix: Demographic and Labor Tables, Profile of Interviewees
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Z.

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