TY - JOUR
T1 - Faraway intimate development
T2 - Global restructuring of social reproduction
AU - Miraftab, Faranak
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: I acknowledge the generous support I received in kind and funding from the following sources: Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society, Creative Research Award College of Fine and Applied Arts, and the Vice Chancellor’s Office Research Board at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
PY - 2011/12
Y1 - 2011/12
N2 - This multisited global ethnography concerns the intimate and unequal relationships that connect revitalization of a Midwestern packing town to development processes in immigrant workers' communities of origin in Togo and Mexico. It brings to light how immigrants' families, friends, and home institutions subsidize reproduction of people and place in immigrants' communities of destination-complex processes and practices I call global restructuring of social reproduction. Revealing the immigration-based nature of local development not only in Mexico and Togo but also in the United States, the study makes visible the global interconnections in processes of dispossession and development.
AB - This multisited global ethnography concerns the intimate and unequal relationships that connect revitalization of a Midwestern packing town to development processes in immigrant workers' communities of origin in Togo and Mexico. It brings to light how immigrants' families, friends, and home institutions subsidize reproduction of people and place in immigrants' communities of destination-complex processes and practices I call global restructuring of social reproduction. Revealing the immigration-based nature of local development not only in Mexico and Togo but also in the United States, the study makes visible the global interconnections in processes of dispossession and development.
KW - immigration and development
KW - midwest meat packing
KW - social reproduction
KW - transnational labor recruitment
KW - transnationalism from below
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U2 - 10.1177/0739456X11420573
DO - 10.1177/0739456X11420573
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:81055122625
SN - 0739-456X
VL - 31
SP - 392
EP - 405
JO - Journal of Planning Education and Research
JF - Journal of Planning Education and Research
IS - 4
ER -