Repository logo
 
Publication

Agrarian migrant workers in times of Covid-19 pandemic: the cases of Spain and Portugal

2021-09-02Conference object Embargoed access
Simple item page
datacite.subject.sdg08:Trabalho Digno e Crescimento Económicopt_PT
datacite.subject.sdg12:Produção e Consumo Sustentáveispt_PT
dc.contributor.authorJacquinet, Marc
dc.contributor.authorBussotti, Luca
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-19T08:40:21Z
dc.date.embargo2025-12-31
dc.date.issued2021-09-02
dc.description33ª Conferência da EAEPE, realizada de 2-4 de setembro de 2021pt_PT
dc.description.abstractThe research addresses the impact of the pandemic on rural migrant workers in two Southern European countries that are at the center of a restructured supply chains of fresh vegetables: Portugal and Spain, where a new political economy of agriculture emerged in the last decades. These two well-known countries for wine produce also olive, olive oils, almonds, tomatoes, oranges, grapes, and other fruits and vegetables. Traditionally, the workers were still in the 1990s mostly coming from local places. Now, immigrants from Sub-Saharan and Northern Africa and from Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia are a large part of the agrarian labor force. The vulnerability, discrimination, and difficulties of livelihood of these migrants workers are common currency and, despite contradictory economic incentives, the pandemic has made matters worst, especially for women and individuals not speaking the local languages. After describing the historical evolution and differences of the agrarian sectors of the two countries for fresh fruits and vegetables, we discuss the impact of the pandemic with a focus on gender. Whereas the situation before the pandemic was precarious and slowly improving on some counts, namely the increase of worker organization, the current process is one of recess. The paper identifies questions neglected by the literature on the pandemic in rural areas, in particular the vulnerability of immigrant workers to hunger, austerity, gender divide and discrimination, health risks, heavy constrained work, deportation, joblessness, and the lack of policies to ease social and economic ills beyond the focus on temporary normalization and repression.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/11269
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherEAEPEpt_PT
dc.subjectImmigrationpt_PT
dc.subjectImmigrant workerpt_PT
dc.subjectPolitical economypt_PT
dc.titleAgrarian migrant workers in times of Covid-19 pandemic: the cases of Spain and Portugalpt_PT
dc.typeconference object
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage16pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage1pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleEAEPE 2021 Conferencept_PT
person.familyNameJacquinet
person.familyNameBussotti
person.givenNameMarc
person.givenNameLuca
person.identifierR-000-K0Z
person.identifier.ciencia-idCC11-51FD-F4CE
person.identifier.ciencia-idC01F-7B36-80EB
person.identifier.orcid0000-0003-1157-060X
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-1720-3571
person.identifier.ridC-1097-2009
person.identifier.scopus-author-id36727345600
rcaap.embargofctDireitos de autorespt_PT
rcaap.rightsembargoedAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typeconferenceObjectpt_PT
relation.isAuthorOfPublication3f95c487-fed0-4374-a428-b1dee2db4a9a
relation.isAuthorOfPublication3e39b2ee-6a65-4b47-82ff-40612ca4b1b7
relation.isAuthorOfPublication.latestForDiscovery3f95c487-fed0-4374-a428-b1dee2db4a9a

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
Agrarian Migrant workers in times of Covid-19 pandemic_ The cases of Spain and Portugal (1).pdf
Size:
630.76 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

Gestão e Economia | Comunicações em congressos, conferências e seminários / Communications in congresses, conferences