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

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Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking - Miraftab, Faranak
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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 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 ...

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Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking 2016, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN

ISBN-13: 9780253019349

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Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking 2016, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN

ISBN-13: 9780253019271

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