Título del libro: Hybrid Mobilities: Transgressive Spatialities
Título del capítulo: Immobility as a migration- management resource in seasonal agricultural- worker programs
SARA MARIA LARA FLORES;
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Año de publicación:
2021
Resumen:
This chapter looks at how, in the context of unregulated global capitalism, ?migration management? is an essential part of a new neoliberal strategy seeking to regulate mass movements of people. The way in which the labor markets formed by the world?s enclaves of intensive agriculture are organized, both in the Global North and South, means that access to temporary labor is a fundamental condition of competitiveness in the global market. Migration management has become a key element in facilitating the movement of temporary agricultural workers. However, the objective of such systems is also to immobilize these workers in order to ensure their unconditional availability, by preventing them from moving freely between companies or markets other than those for which they were hired. By considering these ?on-free? types of employment in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, this chapter shows how different migration channels are sought in order to ensure the availability of the labor needed if businesses are to remain competitive against the highly modernized agricultural firms operating on the international market, with this leading to widespread job insecurity as a result of workers being prevented from moving once they have arrived. Their status as ?migrants? imparts on them a status of extreme vulnerability and strips them of their humanity, reducing them to a workforce. © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Nadine Cattan and Laurent Faret; individual chapters, the contributors.
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9781000437935
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Taylor and Francis Nombre de la publicación:
Immobility as a migration- management resource in seasonal agricultural- worker programs
Página inicial:
197
Página final:
213
