Postville: USA: Surviving Diversity in Small-Town America

Postville is an obscure meatpacking town in the northeast corner of Iowa. Here, in the most unlikely of places, unparalleled diversity drew international media. Now people declare the town's experiment in multiculturalism dead. It was not native Iowans, or the newly-arrived Orthodox Jews, or the immigrant workers who made Postville fail. Postville was stopped in its tracks by a massive raid by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on May 12th 2008. 20% of the population was arrested, forcing the closure of the town's kosher meatpacking plant. The raid exposed the disastrous enforcement of immigration policy, the exploitation of Postville by activists, and disturbing questions about the packing house's operators.

Author: Mark A. Grey, Michele Devlin, Aaron Goldsmith
Publisher: GemmaMedia
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.06w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781934848647
ISBN10: 1934848646
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Policy | Social Policy
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
- Business & Economics | Corporate & Business History | General