Global heartland : displaced labor, transnational lives, and local placemaking / Faranak Miraftab.

Global heartland : displaced labor, transnational lives, and local placemaking /

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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Main Author: Miraftab, Faranak (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Series:Global research studies.
Subjects:
Communities > Illinois > Beardstown.
Multiculturalism > Illinois > Beardstown.
Immigrants > Illinois > Beardstown > Social conditions.
Economic development > Social aspects > Illinois > Beardstown.
Beardstown (Ill.) > Ethnic relations > History.
Beardstown (Ill.) > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects > History.
Beardstown (Ill.) > Social conditions > 21st century.
Beardstown (Ill.) > Economic conditions > 21st century.
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