ABSTRACT
In recent years, Mediterranean agriculture has experienced important transformations which have led to new forms of labour and production, and in particular to a surge in the recruitment of migrant labour. The Mediterranean Basin represents a very interesting arena that is able to illustrate labour conditions and mobility, the competition among different farming models, and the consequences in terms of the proletarianization process, food crisis and diet changes.
Migration and Agriculture brings together international contributors from across several disciplines to describe and analyse labour conditions and international migrations in relation to agri-food restructuring processes. This unique collection of articles connects migration issues with the proletarianization process and agrarian transitions that have affected Southern European as well as some Middle Eastern and Northern African countries in different ways. The chapters present case studies from a range of territories in the Mediterranean Basin, offering empirical data and theoretical analysis in order to grasp the complexity of the processes that are occurring.
This book offers a uniquely comprehensive overview of migrations, territories and agro-food production in this key region, and will be an indispensable resource to scholars in migration studies, rural sociology, social geography and the political economy of agriculture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|24 pages
Cheap food, cheap labour, high profits: agriculture and mobility in the Mediterranean
part 1|52 pages
Migrant labour and ‘quality' food products
chapter 2|15 pages
The (sacred) cow business
chapter 3|16 pages
Wine heritage and the ethnicization of labour
chapter 4|19 pages
Processing tomatoes in the era of the retailing revolution
part 2|68 pages
Social (un)sustainability of intensive agriculture
chapter 5|16 pages
Producing and mobilizing vulnerable workers
chapter 6|16 pages
Family farms, migrant labourers and regional imbalance in global agri-food systems
chapter 7|17 pages
The citrus fruit crisis
chapter 8|17 pages
Migrant labour and intensive agricultural production in Greece
part 3|36 pages
Restructuring of agri-food systems in Maghreb and the Middle-East
chapter 10|13 pages
Refugees in the agricultural sector
part 4|78 pages
Restructuring of agricultural labour markets in Southern Europe and Maghreb
chapter 11|15 pages
Persistent unfree labour in French intensive agriculture
chapter 12|19 pages
They know that you'll leave, like a dog moving onto the next bin'
chapter 13|14 pages
The land of informal intermediation
chapter 14|15 pages
From the Al-Maghrib to the Al-Gharb
part 5|50 pages
Conflicts and resistances
chapter 17|16 pages
Unionism of migrant farm workers
chapter 18|16 pages
Entering the ‘plastic factories'
part 6|23 pages
Conclusion