Precarity and Migration: Thai Wild Berry Pickers in Sweden
| Autor: | Charlotta Hedberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Zdroj: | Faces of Precarity ISBN: 9781529220070 Faces of Precarity ISBN: 9781529220094 |
| Popis: | This chapter analyzes the precarity of migrant workers. International migrants tend to be precarious due to the unequal distribution of resources along lines of ethnicity, race and citizenship. The chapter analyzes the complex relationship between structure and agency in precarious migration processes of global food chains. The example of Thai wild berry pickers in Sweden shows how migrant work is sustained through an interplay of, on the one hand, structures of neoliberal and global divisions of labour and, on the other hand, migrant aspirations for a better life. Specifically, the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates how migrant workers, as actors in global neoliberal food systems, are taking both economic and health-related risks while working abroad. Indirectly, migrant agency is sustaining a system of precarious work. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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