Migration and Agriculture

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Introduction. Cheap food, cheap labour, high profits. Agriculture and mobility in the Mediterranean. Alessandra Corrado, Carlos de Castro, Domenico Perrotta

Part I - Migrant Labour and "Quality" Food Products

Chapter 2 - The (sacred) cow business. Narratives and practices of the "ethnic niche" of Indian Punjab milkers in the Po Valley, Vanessa Azzeruoli

Chapter 3 - Wine heritage and the ethnicization of labour. Arab workers in the Bordeaux vineyards, Chantal Crenn

Chapter 4 - Processing tomatoes in the era of the retailing revolution. Mechanization and migrant labour in northern and southern Italy, Domenico Perrotta

Part II - Social (un)sustainability of intensive agriculture: migrant labour in supply chains "under pressure" in Southern Europe

Chapter 5 - Producing and mobilizing vulnerable workers. The agribusiness of the Region of Murcia (Spain), Elena Gadea, Andres Pedreno, Carlos de Castro

Chapter 6 - Family farms, migrant labourers and regional imbalance in global agri-food systems. On the social (un)sustainability of intensive strawberry production in Huelva (Spain), Alicia Reigada

Chapter 7 - The citrus fruit crisis. Value chains and "just in time" migrants in Rosarno (Italy) and Valencia (Spain). Anna Mary Garrapa

Chapter 8 - Migrant labour and intensive agricultural production in Greece. The case of the Manolada strawberry industry, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Loukia - Maria Fratsea

Part III - Restructuring of Agri-food Systems in Maghreb and Middle-East

Chapter 9 - Contested red gold: The tomato in the context of European-Moroccan relations, Sarah Ruth Sippel

Chapter 10 - Refugees in the agricultural sector: some notes on Syrians in Hatay province, Turkey, Selma Akay Erturk

Part IV - Restructuring of agricultural labour markets in Southern Europe and Maghreb

Chapter 11 - Persistent unfree labour in French intensive agriculture: A historical overview of the "OFII" temporary farmworkers program, Frederic Decosse

Chapter 12 - "They know that you'll leave, like a dog moving onto the next bin". Undocumented male and seasonal contracted female workers in agricultural labour market of Huelva, Spain. Emmanuelle Hellio

Chapter 13 - The land of informal intermediation. The social regulation of migrant agricultural labour in the Piana del Sele, Italy, Gennaro Avallone

Chapter 14 - From the Al-Maghrib to the Al-Gharb: An anatomy of the recruitment and labour incorporation of Moroccan agricultural workers in the Algarve, Southern Portugal, Dora Sampaio, Rui Carvalho

Chapter 15 - Agricultural modernization, internal migration and the formation of a wage labour market in the Souss region, Morocco. Mohamed Bouchelkha,

Part V - Conflicts and resistances

Chapter 16 - Rural and farmers' protest movements in Tunisia and Egypt in the era of Arab revolts, Alia Gana

Chapter 17 - Unionism of migrant farm workers. The Sindicato Obreros del Campo (SOC) in Andalusia, Spain, Francesco Saverio Caruso

Chapter 18 - Entering the "plastic factories". Conflicts and competition in Sicilian greenhouses and packinghouses, Valeria Piro, Giuliana Sano

Conclusion

Chapter 19 - Agrarian change and migrations in the Mediterranean from a food regime perspective. Alessandra Corrado