Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture (eBook, PDF)

The Social Costs of Eating Fresh
Redaktion: Gertel, Jörg; Sippel, Sarah Ruth

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Over the last three decades there has been a rapid expansion of intensive production of fresh fruit and vegetables in the Mediterranean regions of south and west Europe. Much of this depends on migrating workers for seasonal labour, including from Eastern Europe and North Africa. This book is the first to address agro-migration complexes across the region.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134655502
• Artikelnr.: 42653955

Autorenporträt

Jörg Gertel is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Sarah Ruth Sippel is a geographer and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Area Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction 1. Seasonality and Temporality in Intensive
Agriculture 2. B/ordering the Mediterranean: Free Trade, Fresh Fruits and
Fluid Fixity Part 2: France: Traditional Centre of Fruit and Vegetable
Production 3. Shared Insecurities? Farmers and Workers in Bouches-du-Rhône
4. Super/markets: Beyond Buyer-drivenness in Southern France 5. Fruit
Production in France and Argentina: Globalizing Standards and Labour
Markets 6. The Transnational Recruitment of Temporary Latino Workers in
European Agriculture 7. Sans-papiers: Self-censored Social Identities of
Farm Workers in Southern France Commentary: Neoliberal Market
Mystifications in the Social Costs of Eating Fresh - Philippines-Canada
Comparisons Part 3: Spain: Symbol and Embodiment of Industrial Agriculture
8. The Political Economy of El Ejido: Genealogy of the 2000 Conflict 9. The
Industrial Agriculture: A 'Model for Modernization' from Almería? 10.
Mobility Partnerships and Circular Migration: Managing Seasonal Migration
to Spain 11. 'Origin Matters': Working Conditions of Moroccans and
Romanians in the Greenhouses of Almería 12. 'We Don't have Women in Boxes':
Channelling Seasonal Mobility of Female Farmworkers between Morocco and
Andalusia Commentary: From Fresh Produce to Poultry - Shifting Labour
Regimes in the Global Agri-food System Part 4: Morocco: Booming Sites of
Counter Seasonal Production 13. Which Agricultural Policy for which Food
Security in Morocco? 14. Facilitating the Export of Fruit and Vegetables:
The Role of State Institutions in Morocco 15. Disrupted Livelihoods?
Intensive Agriculture and Labour Markets in the Moroccan Souss 16. Labour
and Gender Relations in Moroccan Strawberry Culture 17. Between Hope and
Disillusionment: The Migration of Nomadic Pastoralists to Europe 18. Border
Makers: Clandestine Migration from Morocco Commentary: New Migration and
New Communities - Social Changes Born from Agricultural Changes Part 5:
Conclusion 19. Comparative Perspective: Insights from New Zealand's
Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme 20. Epilogue: The Social Costs of
Eating Fresh