Gertel / Sippel Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture

The Social Costs of Eating Fresh
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-134-65550-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

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, North Africa and Latin America. This book is the first to address global agro-migration complexes across the region.

It is argued that both intensive agricultural production and related working conditions are highly dynamic. Regional patterns have developed from small-scale family farming to become an industrialized part of the global agri-food system, which increasingly depends on seasonal labour. Simultaneously, consumer demand for year-round supply has caused relocations of the industry within Europe; areas of intensive greenhouse production have moved further south and even into North Africa. The authors investigate this Mediterranean agri-food system that transcends borders and is largely constituted by invisible seasonal work. By revealing the story of food commodities loaded with implications of private profit seeking, exploitation, exclusion and multiple insecurities, the book unmasks the hidden costs of fresh food provisioning.

Three case study areas are considered in detail: the French region of Provence, a traditional centre of fresh fruit and vegetable cultivation; the Spanish Almería region where intensive production has, accelerated dramatically since the 1970s; and Morocco where counter-seasonal production has recently been expanding. The book also includes commentaries that refer to complemetary insights on US-Mexico, Philippines-Canada and South Pacific mobilities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gertel, Jörg

Sippel, Sarah Ruth

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Introduction

1. Seasonality and Temporality in Intensive Agriculture

Jörg Gertel and Sarah Ruth Sippel

2. B/ordering the Mediterranean: Free Trade, Fresh Fruits and Fluid Fixity

Marc Boeckler and Christian Berndt

Part 2: France: Traditional Centre of Fruit and Vegetable Production

3. Shared Insecurities? Farmers and Workers in Bouches-du-Rhône

Sarah Ruth Sippel and Jörg Gertel

4. Super/markets: Beyond Buyer-drivenness in Southern France

Jörg Gertel and Sarah Ruth Sippel

5. Fruit Production in France and Argentina: Globalizing Standards and Labour Markets

Annie Lamanthe and Victor Rau

6. The Transnational Recruitment of Temporary Latino Workers in European Agriculture

Béatrice Mésini

7. Sans-papiers: Self-censored Social Identities of Farm Workers in Southern France

Swanie Potot

Commentary: Neoliberal Market Mystifications in the Social Costs of Eating Fresh – Philippines–Canada Comparisons

Pauline Gardiner Barber

Part 3: Spain: Symbol and Embodiment of Industrial Agriculture

8. The Political Economy of El Ejido: Genealogy of the 2000 Conflict

Ubaldo Martínez Veiga

9. The Industrial Agriculture: A ‘Model for Modernization’ from Almería?

José Á. Aznar-Sánchez, Luis J. Belmonte-Ureña and Juan J. Tapia-León

10. Mobility Partnerships and Circular Migration: Managing Seasonal Migration to Spain

Katja Lindner and Till Kathmann

11. ‘Origin Matters’: Working Conditions of Moroccans and Romanians in the Greenhouses of Almería

Pablo Pumares and Dominique Jolivet

12. ‘We Don’t have Women in Boxes’: Channelling Seasonal Mobility of Female Farmworkers between Morocco and Andalusia

Emmanuelle Hellio

Commentary: From Fresh Produce to Poultry – Shifting Labour Regimes in the Global Agri-food System

Douglas H. Constance

Part 4: Morocco: Booming Sites of Counter Seasonal Production

13. Which Agricultural Policy for which Food Security in Morocco?

Najib Akesbi

14. Facilitating the Export of Fruit and Vegetables: The Role of State Institutions in Morocco

Mads Barbesgaard and Niels Fold

15. Disrupted Livelihoods? Intensive Agriculture and Labour Markets in the Moroccan Souss

Sarah Ruth Sippel

16. Labour and Gender Relations in Moroccan Strawberry Culture

Juana Moreno Nieto

17. Between Hope and Disillusionment: The Migration of Nomadic Pastoralists to Europe

Mohamed Mahdi

18. Border Makers: Clandestine Migration from Morocco

Mustapha El Miri

Commentary: New Migration and New Communities – Social Changes Born from Agricultural Changes

Peggy Petrzelka

Part 5: Conclusion

19. Comparative Perspective: Insights from New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme

Nick Lewis

20. Epilogue: The Social Costs of Eating Fresh

Jörg Gertel and Sarah Ruth Sippel

Über Autor(innen)

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.