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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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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, About the Series, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xi-1
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  1. Introduction: The Global Heartland
  2. pp. 2-24
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  1. Part I. Beardstown: A Place in the World
  1. 1. Welcome to Porkopolis
  2. pp. 26-53
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  1. 2. It All Changed Overnight
  2. pp. 54-76
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  1. Part II. Displaced Labor
  1. 3. Michoacán’s Largest Export Is People
  2. pp. 78-93
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  1. 4. Winning the Lottery in Togo
  2. pp. 94-112
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  1. 5. Detroit: “The First Third World City of the U.S.”
  2. pp. 113-128
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  1. Part III. Outsourced Lives
  1. 6. Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction
  2. pp. 130-158
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  1. Part IV. We Wanted Workers, We Got People
  1. 7. We Wanted Workers
  2. pp. 160-185
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  1. 8. We Got People
  2. pp. 186-208
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  1. Conclusion: The Global in My Backyard
  2. pp. 209-224
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  1. Appendix: Demographic and Labor Tables, Profile of Interviewees
  2. pp. 225-234
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 235-262
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  1. References
  2. pp. 263-284
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 285-292
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  1. About the Author
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