Gender, Temporary Work, and Migration Management - Global Food and Utilitarian Migration in Huelva, Spain

This book delves into migration management via an original case study of a guest worker programme involving the circular migration to Spain of female Moroccan agricultural workers destined for the strawberry agri-food industry in the south. To ensure that they do return to Morocco, mothers of young children are first earmarked and then selected on the basis of their poor, rural origins and the supposed "delicacy of their hands". This book analyses the mechanisms through which migration and workforces are controlled, while also addressing the paradoxical experience of these female seasonal workers, at the intersection of domination and emancipation.  

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. "Global Food" and Utilitarian Migration in Huelva .- 3. Captive Bodies and Spatial Constraints .- 4. The Desire for Citizenship: Between Domination and Recognition .- 5. False Recognition and Citizenship: The End of a Dream .- 6. Escaping the Management Apparatus: Running Away or Disappearing? .- 7. Conclusion: Junk Space and Junk Workers.

About the author

Djemila Zeneidi is Research Fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (Passages Umr 5319) in Bordeaux, France.

Summary

This book delves into migration management via an original case study of a guest worker programme involving the circular migration to Spain of female Moroccan agricultural workers destined for the strawberry agri-food industry in the south. To ensure that they do return to Morocco, mothers of young children are first earmarked and then selected on the basis of their poor, rural origins and the supposed "delicacy of their hands". This book analyses the mechanisms through which migration and workforces are controlled, while also addressing the paradoxical experience of these female seasonal workers, at the intersection of domination and emancipation.  

Product details

• Authors: Djemelia Zeneidi, Djemila Zeneidi
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Original title: Femmes/fraises. Import/export
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9783319532516
• ISBN: 978-3-31-953251-6
• No. of pages: 115
• Dimensions: 184 mm x 12 mm x 219 mm
• Weight: 265 g
• Illustrations: XI, 115 p.
• Series: Mobility & Politics; Mobility & Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Miscellaneous; Migration, C, Globalization, Europe, European Politics, Political Science, International Relations, biotechnology, European Union, Identity Politics, Politics & government, Migration, immigration & emigration, Political Science and International Studies, Political Economy, Gender studies, gender groups, EU (European Union), International Political Economy, Emigration and immigration, European Union Politics, Europe—Politics and government, Politics and Gender