ISBN:
9780253019424
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0253019427
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
Series Statement:
Global research studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Miraftab, Faranak, author Global heartland
DDC:
305.8009773465
Keywords:
Communities Illinois
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Beardstown
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Multiculturalism Illinois
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Beardstown
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Immigrants Social conditions
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Illinois
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Beardstown
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Economic development Social aspects
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Illinois
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Beardstown
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Multiculturalism
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Immigrants Social conditions
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Economic development Social aspects
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Communities
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Communities
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Multiculturalism
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Immigrants Social conditions
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Economic development Social aspects
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration
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Communities
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Economic development ; Social aspects
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Economic history
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Emigration and immigration ; Economic aspects
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Ethnic relations
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Immigrants ; Social conditions
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Multiculturalism
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Social conditions
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History
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Electronic books
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Beardstown (Ill.) Ethnic relations
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History
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Beardstown (Ill.) Emigration and immigration
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Economic aspects
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History
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Beardstown (Ill.) Social conditions
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21st century
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Beardstown (Ill.) Economic conditions
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21st century
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Illinois
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Beardstown
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Beardstown (Ill.) Ethnic relations
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History
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Beardstown (Ill.) Emigration and immigration
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Economic aspects
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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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Beardstown (Ill.) Economic conditions 21st century
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Beardstown (Ill.) Ethnic relations
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History
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Beardstown (Ill.) Emigration and immigration
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Economic aspects
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History
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Beardstown (Ill.) Social conditions 21st century
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Illinois ; Beardstown
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Electronic books History
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Electronic books
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
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
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Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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