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… (more)
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Publisher: Indiana University Press (January 07, 2016)
Collection: Framing the Global
Parent ISBN: 9780253019271
Page count: 310 pages
Language: English