US immigration reform and its global impact : lessons from the Postville raid /
Erik Camayd-Freixas.
- ix, 261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-254) and index.
Introduction : think globally, act locally -- Hometown to the world : a brief history of Postville -- ICE over the heartland : the May raid and its costs -- Theatrum juridicum : inside the judicial process -- The script and the scandal : national legal reactions -- The orphans of globalization : a portrait of the migrant workers -- The kosher jungle : chronicle of Agriprocessors (1987-2009) -- Endgame : the prelude and the aftermath : raids, race, and labor before and after Postville -- The day democracy died : the decline of the US Constitution -- Conclusion : enlightened immigration reform : toward a free-trade labor policy.
9780230105850 (hbk.) 0230105858 (hbk.)
2013002336
Foreign workers--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States. Deportation--United States. Illegal aliens--Iowa--Postville. Immigration enforcement--United States. Postville Immigration Raid, Postville, Iowa, 2008. Foreign workers, Mexican--Iowa--Postville. Foreign workers, Guatemalan--Iowa--Postville.