Global Heartland is the account of diverse, dispossessed, and Displaced people brought together in a former sundown town in Illinois.
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.
Recruited to work in the Local meat-processing plant, African Americans, Mexicans, and West Africans re-create the town in unexpected ways.
Global Heartland is the account of diverse, dispossessed, and Displaced people brought together in a former sundown town in Illinois