عنوان

Globalization "southern style": Transnational migration, the poultry industry, and implications for organizing workers across difference

کد کشور

IR

شماره

95T

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

کشور محل نشر

IR

عنوان اصلي

Globalization "southern style": Transnational migration, the poultry industry, and implications for organizing workers across difference

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام ساير پديدآوران

;supervisor Hale, Charles R., Flores, Richard R.

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

The University of Texas at Austin: United States -- Texas

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

: 2008

نام خاص و کميت اثر

427 pages

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

, The University of Texas at Austin: United States -- Texas

متن يادداشت

Since the mid-1990s, Central Mississippi has become home to a new population of migrants from across Latin America. Recruited by the chicken processing industry, these newcomers work alongside a longstanding and disenfranchised Black workforce in the country's lowest paid and most dangerous jobs. This study addresses the globalization of rural Mississippi, its relationship to capital and labor, and its human implications for established Southern communities as well as new immigrant groups. It explores the ways in which people of different backgrounds understand and experience migration, shaped to a large degree by the historical and contemporary political economies of race and white privilege in this region. It examines the changes in the poultry industry over time that led to its recent recruitment of foreign-born laborers, and it illustrates the ways in which difference is constructed and maintained among people of diverse backgrounds in both communities and workplaces in the area. Through ethnography of discourses and interactions across lines of difference--both inside the plants, where identity categories are exploited for labor control and profit, and outside, as workers go about their everyday segregated lives--the dissertation argues that transnational migration is both transforming and consolidating social hierarchies in the region. Migrants are not entering society at the bottom, but rather are inserted into a precarious space between white and Black, and their positioning in society is often shifting and situational. This conclusion holds vital implications for workers' prospects for political mobilization. It suggests that in the globalized present, organizers of low-wage workers must understand class as but one of a number of cross cutting axes of identity formation, and that class struggle alone will not bring about social change in a newly multicultural workforce. In a world increasingly driven by neoliberalism and divided by racial and ethnic conflict, the research creates a deeper awareness of the relationships between industrial restructuring, transnational migration, and political economies of race, revealing both challenges and possibilities for newly multicultural communities seeking social, economic, and workplace justice.

موضوع مستند نشده

Cultural anthropology

موضوع مستند نشده

American history

موضوع مستند نشده

Ethnic studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Immigration

اصطلاح موضوعی

Race

اصطلاح موضوعی

U.S. South

اصطلاح موضوعی

Neoliberal globalization

اصطلاح موضوعی

Social movements

اصطلاح موضوعی

Labor

اصطلاح موضوعی

Globalization

اصطلاح موضوعی

Migration

اصطلاح موضوعی

Poultry industry

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Stuesse, Angela Christine

کشور

ایران

سازمان

National Center for Globalization Studies

وضعیت فهرست نویسی

old catalog

نوع ماده

TL

پیشوند ISBD اعمال شده است

1

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y