| Description |
1 online resource |
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Global research studies |
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Global research studies.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Communities -- Illinois -- Beardstown
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Multiculturalism -- Illinois -- Beardstown
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Immigrants -- Illinois -- Beardstown -- Social conditions
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Economic development -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Beardstown
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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Communities
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Economic development -- Social aspects
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Economic history
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Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
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Ethnic relations
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Immigrants -- Social conditions
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Multiculturalism
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Social conditions
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Beardstown (Ill.) -- Ethnic relations -- History
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Beardstown (Ill.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects -- History
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Beardstown (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Beardstown (Ill.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Illinois -- Beardstown
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2015032159 |
| ISBN |
9780253019424 |
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0253019427 |
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