| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Global research studies
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Global research studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Communities -- Illinois -- Beardstown.
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Communities. |
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Illinois -- Beardstown. |
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Multiculturalism -- Illinois -- Beardstown.
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Multiculturalism. |
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Immigrants -- Illinois -- Beardstown -- Social conditions.
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Immigrants. |
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Social conditions. |
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Economic development -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Beardstown.
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Economic development -- Social aspects. |
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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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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Miraftab, Faranak. Global heartland 9780253019271 (DLC) 2015032159 (OCoLC)929331631 |
| ISBN |
9780253019424 (electronic book) |
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0253019427 (electronic book) |
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9780253019271 |
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0253019273 |
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9780253019349 |
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0253019346 |
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