Unofficial sister cities: Meatpacking labor migration between Villachuato, Mexico, and Marshalltown, Iowa

Human Organization

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 364-376

  Grey, Mark A ^a   Woodrick, Anne C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Immigration; Iowa; Labor migration; Mexico; Transnational communities

Indexed keywords

FOOD INDUSTRY; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; LABOR MIGRATION; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE;

IOWA; MARSHALLTOWN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036994982     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.61.4.8xhdfg6jggqccb2c     Document Type: Article

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