Camayd-Freixas, Erik.

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.

KF4829 / C173 2013

342.7308/2