Faranak Miraftab: 1 book

Book cover of Global Heartland

Global Heartland

Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking

by Faranak Miraftab
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016

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...
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