Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, And Local Placemaking (Framing The Global) - 9780253019349

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. Winner: Davidoff Book Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Winner: Global & Transnational Sociology section Book Award, American Sociological Association (ASA) Finalist: C. Wright Mills Book Award, Society for Study of Social Problems (SSSP)

• | Author: Faranak Miraftab
• | Publisher: Indiana University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 07, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 308 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 0253019346
• | ISBN-13: 9780253019349