Seasonal agricultural workers in a pandemic: new faces of an old problem
Year after year Spain’s seasonal agricultural workers are in the news. In 2020, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the same problems were repeated over and over again. This paper analyses four cases that made the news: the conditions of the informal settlements in Andalusia; the Moroccan temporar...
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Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)
2021-02-01
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| author | Blanca Garcés Mascareñas Berta Güell |
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| description | Year after year Spain’s seasonal agricultural workers are in the news. In 2020, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the same problems were repeated over and over again. This paper analyses four cases that made the news: the conditions of the informal settlements in Andalusia; the Moroccan temporary workers hired in their country of origin who ended up trapped in Huelva; the death of an asylum seeker in Lorca and what it reveals about harsh rural working conditions; and seasonal workers living on the street in Lleida, which once again prompted debate over their housing conditions in the midst of the first COVID-19 outbreaks of the summer. The final objective of the paper is to use specific cases to illustrate longstanding structural problems and suggest possible solutions in the short, medium and long term. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dd21c5fff5cc4d62a0f478a2c5eb66c72022-12-21T22:07:05ZspaBarcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)Anuario CIDOB de la Inmigración2462-67322462-67402021-02-01202086100doi.org/10.24241/AnuarioCIDOBInmi.2020.86Seasonal agricultural workers in a pandemic: new faces of an old problemBlanca Garcés Mascareñas0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4039-3964Berta Güell1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4263-6763Investigadora sénior, CIDOBInvestigadora, CIDOBYear after year Spain’s seasonal agricultural workers are in the news. In 2020, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the same problems were repeated over and over again. This paper analyses four cases that made the news: the conditions of the informal settlements in Andalusia; the Moroccan temporary workers hired in their country of origin who ended up trapped in Huelva; the death of an asylum seeker in Lorca and what it reveals about harsh rural working conditions; and seasonal workers living on the street in Lleida, which once again prompted debate over their housing conditions in the midst of the first COVID-19 outbreaks of the summer. The final objective of the paper is to use specific cases to illustrate longstanding structural problems and suggest possible solutions in the short, medium and long term.https://www.raco.cat/index.php/AnuarioCIDOBInmigracion/article/view/381252spainseasonal agricultural workerspandemicglobal agricultural chainsmigrant workers |
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| title | Seasonal agricultural workers in a pandemic: new faces of an old problem |
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| title_short | Seasonal agricultural workers in a pandemic: new faces of an old problem |
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