{"product_id":"global-heartland-displaced-labor-transnational-lives-and-local-placemaking-framing-the-global-0253019346","title":"Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking (Framing the Global)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0253019346\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Miraftab, Faranak\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlobal 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51697213440288,"sku":"NEW0253019346","price":34.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91hB7HEZLKL.jpg?v=1779383117","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/global-heartland-displaced-labor-transnational-lives-and-local-placemaking-framing-the-global-0253019346","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}