(Be)laboring Childhoods in Postville, Iowa.

Explayarse sobre el trabajo infantil en Postville, Iowa.
Trabalhando Infâncias à Pancada em Postville, Iowa.

By examining a flagrant case of "child" migrant labor in a meatpacking facility, this article addresses the cultural politics of global childhood. Conflicting constructions of childhood first emerged informally within kin and community networks. Community-based constructions were later overshadowed and delimited in a child labor trial that took place two years after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (ICE) raided Agriprocessors, the town's major employer. I trace the shifting contours of cultural and legal battles over childhood and forms of citizenship that, in microcosm, speak to on-going debates over immigration and economic policies tying the United States to Guatemala. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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