Confronting Borders, Creating Community: Transregional Consequences of Migration and Detention Between Guatemala and Iowa, 1980-2018

This dissertation explores themes of borderlands, migration, detention, and community. It uses the 2008 ICE raid on Agriprocessors, a kosher meatpacking plant, in Postville, Iowa as a case study to look at Transregional migration from Guatemala to Iowa. As migrants settled in Postville, they added t...

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Main Author: Swanson-Evans, RaeAnn Lillian
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: ScholarWorks@UTEP 2024
Subjects:
Border
Deportation
Detention
Guatemala
Iowa
Migration
History
Postville
Online Access:https://scholarworks.utep.edu/open_etd/4152
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/context/open_etd/article/5151/viewcontent/SwansonEvans_utep_0459D_14413.pdf

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