Intimate liminality in Spain's berry industry

IF 3.3 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Pub Date : 2024-01-27 DOI:10.1111/tran.12673

Nora Komposch, Carolin Schurr, Angels Escriva

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Spain's berry industry relies on the agricultural labour of both local and seasonal migrant workers. A significant part of this migrant workforce comprises Moroccan mothers who leave their children with relatives in order to perform this wage labour. The bilateral recruitment regime favours the employment of Moroccan women with children for this labour to ensure that workers return home at the end of the harvesting season. Drawing on multi-site ethnographic research in Spain and Morocco, this study revealed the effects of this bilateral labour regime on the intimate lives of migrant workers. We argue that the geopolitical prescriptions of this labour migration regime, along with the working and living conditions of migrant workers in Huelva, result in experiences of intimate liminality. We examined these experiences by exploring: (1) how the role of female workers as mothers becomes liminal as transnational labour agreements marginalise and outsource care obligations, (2) how governmental neglect of migrant workers' occupational health exposes them to reproductive health risks and (3) how this neglect places them in a liminal space in terms of access to healthcare, and (4) how, despite their liminality, migrant workers contest precarious conditions through everyday solidarity practices. We advance a feminist approach to liminality, emphasising the importance of an embodied, intersectional, and multiscalar perspective.

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西班牙浆果业的亲密临界点

西班牙的浆果业依赖当地和季节性移民工人的农业劳动。这些移民劳动力中有很大一部分是摩洛哥籍母亲，她们把孩子托付给亲戚，从事这种有偿劳动。双边招聘制度倾向于雇用有子女的摩洛哥妇女从事这种劳动，以确保工人在收获季节结束时返回家乡。本研究利用在西班牙和摩洛哥进行的多地点人种学研究，揭示了这种双边劳工制度对移民工人亲密生活的影响。我们认为，这种劳动力迁移制度的地缘政治规定，以及韦尔瓦外来务工人员的工作和生活条件，导致了亲密关系的边缘性体验。我们通过探讨以下问题来研究这些体验：(1) 随着跨国劳工协议的边缘化和护理义务的外包，女工作为母亲的角色如何变得边缘化；(2) 政府对外来务工人员职业健康的忽视如何使她们面临生殖健康风险；(3) 这种忽视如何使她们在获得医疗保健方面处于边缘空间；(4) 尽管处于边缘空间，外来务工人员如何通过日常团结实践与不稳定的条件抗争。我们提出了一种女性主义的边缘性研究方法，强调了体现性、交叉性和多领域视角的重要性。

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