Transnational guest workers in the 21st century: Gender and the agro-industry in southern Europe
| dc.contributor.author | Ribas Mateos, Natalia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Escrivá Chordá, María Ángeles | |
| dc.contributor.author | Robins, Deirdre | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-29T13:24:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-29T13:24:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-10 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article analyses the contested interconnections between global structures and the living and working conditions of female temporary migrant workers by exploring the transnational condition as a means of understanding intensive and insecure post-Fordist work in late global capitalism, particularly in southern Europe. Building on existing research of migrant work experiences in the agro-business industry, the main part of the article considers three ethnographic questions: What is the impact of the transnational economy on these guest workers’ lives? How does this concept relate to the working lives of women? And how can we understand the impact of intermediaries and global elites in such transnational practices? We employ the concept of transnational space applied to southern Europe alongside notions of “mobility strategies” to advance sociological inquiry into the intersections between different fieldworks – in Andalusia and the Meknes province in Morocco – and the conceptual debate concerning women’s lives and experiences in transnational migration. In this guest worker model, workers who live in one country and work seasonally in another typically come from rural areas and reside abroad in barracks-style accommodations with fellow citizens. What are the challenges for women involved in such a model in terms of recruitment, transportation, work, leisure and return to origin? What space is left for social justice? | es_ES |
| dc.description.abstract | Este artículo analiza las controvertidas interconexiones entre las estructuras globales y las condiciones de las trabajadoras migrantes temporales. Para ello se explora la condición transnacional como herramienta para comprender el trabajo posfordista intensivo e inseguro del capitalismo global tardío, particularmente en el sur de Europa. Basándose en investigaciones previas sobre la vida laboral en el sector agrícola, la parte principal del artículo considera las siguientes tres cuestiones etnográficas. Primera, ¿cuál es el impacto de la economía transnacional en estos acuerdos de trabajadores invitados? Segunda, ¿cómo se relaciona este concepto de «invitado» con la vida laboral de las mujeres? Y tercera, ¿cómo podemos entender el impacto de los intermediarios y las élites globales en tales prácticas transnacionales? Empleamos el concepto de espacio transnacional aplicado al sur de Europa junto con nociones de «estrategias de movilidad» para profundizar en la investigación sociológica sobre las intersecciones entre diferentes trabajos de campo —en Huelva (Andalucía) y en la provincia de Mequinez (Marruecos). Analizamos los debates conceptuales sobre las vidas y experiencias del vivir transnacional de las mujeres. En este modelo de trabajador huésped, los trabajadores que viven en un país y trabajan estacionalmente en otro normalmente provienen de zonas rurales y residen en el extranjero en alojamientos precarios junto a sus conciudadanos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos para las mujeres involucradas en este rígido modelo, en materia de reclutamiento, transporte, trabajo, salud, ocio y retorno al origen? ¿Qué espacio queda para la justicia social? | es_ES |
| dc.description.department | Sociología, Trabajo Social y Salud Pública | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The research of the main author was facilitated by a Maria Zambrano Senior Researcher Grant at UAB (2022-2024). The research and collaboration between the authors of this article was made possible by the following research funds: the 2020-2023 EPIT programme of the University of Huelva, and the PID2022-138808OB-I00 project funded by MICIU/AEI /10.13039/501100011033/FEDER/EU. In Morocco we thank Professor Mimoun Aziza and the history and geography students who were with us at the presentation of the project (University of Muley Ismail in Meknes). We especially thank Soumia Demnati for her support in Meknes. We thank all the people who helped us during the ethnographies in Huelva and in Morocco (see the section on methodology for details, especially Fatima´s family in Morocco). We would also like to thank you Jonathan Bennett for the English proofreading of the final copy of the article | es_ES |
| dc.identifier.citation | Ribas-Mateos, N., Escrivà, A., & Robins, D. (2024). Transnational guest workers in the 21st century: Gender and the agro-industry in southern Europe. In Papers. Revista de Sociologia (Vol. 109, Issue 4, p. e3288). Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/papers.3288 | es_ES |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.5565/rev/papers.3288 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0210-2862 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2013-9004 (electrónico) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10272/24346 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
| dc.publisher | Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona | es_ES |
| dc.rights | Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España | * |
| dc.rights.accessRights | open access | es_ES |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ | * |
| dc.subject.other | Environmental health | es_ES |
| dc.subject.other | Social justice | es_ES |
| dc.subject.other | Southern Europe | es_ES |
| dc.subject.other | Strawberry pickers | es_ES |
| dc.subject.other | Agro-business industry | es_ES |
| dc.subject.other | Moroccan women | es_ES |
| dc.subject.other | Transnational practices | es_ES |
| dc.subject.other | Global mobilities | es_ES |
| dc.subject.other | Huelva | es_ES |
| dc.subject.other | Meknes | es_ES |
| dc.subject.other | Salud ambiental | es_ES |
| dc.subject.other | Agroindustria | es_ES |
| dc.subject.other | Justicia social | es_ES |
| dc.subject.other | Mujeres marroquíes | es_ES |
| dc.subject.other | Prácticas transnacionales | es_ES |
| dc.subject.other | Movilidades globales | es_ES |
| dc.subject.other | Mequinez | es_ES |
| dc.subject.other | Recolectoras de fresa | es_ES |
| dc.subject.other | Sur de Europa | es_ES |
| dc.subject.unesco | 63 Sociología | es_ES |
| dc.title | Transnational guest workers in the 21st century: Gender and the agro-industry in southern Europe | es_ES |
| dc.title.alternative | Trabajadores transnacionales invitados en el siglo xxi: género y agroindustria en el sur de Europa | es_ES |
| dc.type | journal article | es_ES |
| dc.type.hasVersion | VoR | es_ES |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
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