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Emergent SpacesSpaces of Social Reproduction and Emergent Change in Small Town America

Emergent Spaces: Spaces of Social Reproduction and Emergent Change in Small Town America [This chapter examines how immigrant workers negotiated their position in the Midwestern meat-packing town of Beardstown. I explore place-making and related dynamics as they unfold in spaces workers and their families use for social reproduction like public spaces, parks, and sports fields, or home-based child care. My focus is on emergent spaces like soccer fields and claims to visibility via celebrations in public spaces where immigrants claim their right to the town and seed their participation as permanent town residents. In Beardstown, playing soccer and creating soccer fields neatly illustrate the spatial struggles of newcomers as they planted seeds of change. Public soccer fields and public celebrations increased immigrants’ visibility and initiated the first steps of their participation in local society. Becoming visible and claiming participation and belonging were achievements and important milestones for the new residents that facilitated a process of change by voicing the claim: “we are here!”] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Emergent SpacesSpaces of Social Reproduction and Emergent Change in Small Town America

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Kuppinger, Petra
Miraftab, Faranak
Emergent Spaces — Jan 1, 2022
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-84378-6
Pages
47 –61
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-84379-3_3
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Abstract

[This chapter examines how immigrant workers negotiated their position in the Midwestern meat-packing town of Beardstown. I explore place-making and related dynamics as they unfold in spaces workers and their families use for social reproduction like public spaces, parks, and sports fields, or home-based child care. My focus is on emergent spaces like soccer fields and claims to visibility via celebrations in public spaces where immigrants claim their right to the town and seed their participation as permanent town residents. In Beardstown, playing soccer and creating soccer fields neatly illustrate the spatial struggles of newcomers as they planted seeds of change. Public soccer fields and public celebrations increased immigrants’ visibility and initiated the first steps of their participation in local society. Becoming visible and claiming participation and belonging were achievements and important milestones for the new residents that facilitated a process of change by voicing the claim: “we are here!”]

Published: Jan 1, 2022

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