From panic to business as usual: What coronavirus has revealed about migrant labour, agri‐food systems and industrial relations in the Nordic countries

IF 3.2 2区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY
Brian Kuns, Lowe Börjeson, K. Fischer, Charlotta Hedberg, Irma Olofsson, U. Ovaska, Bjarke Refslund, Johan Fredrik Rye, H. Vihinen
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This article focuses on migrant labour in Nordic agriculture, wild berry picking and food processing. The starting point is the fear of a food crisis at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic (2020) because of the absence of migrant workers. The question was raised early in the pandemic if food systems in the Global North are vulnerable due to dependence on precarious migrant workers. In the light of this question, we assess the reactions of farmers and different actors in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden to what looked like an unfolding food crisis. In many ways, the reactions in the Nordic countries were similar to each other, and to broader reactions in the Global North, and we follow these reactions as they relate to migrant workers from an initial panic to a return to business as usual despite the continuation of the pandemic. In the end, 2020 proved to be an excellent year for Nordic food production in part because migrant workers were able to come. We discuss reasons why the Nordic countries did not face disruptions during the pandemic, map out patterns of labour precarity and segmentation for migrant labour in agriculture and food production in the Nordic countries and propose questions for further research. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Sociologia Ruralis is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
从恐慌到一切照旧:新冠病毒揭示了北欧国家的移民劳动力、农业食品系统和劳资关系
本文重点介绍北欧农业、野生浆果采摘和食品加工中的移民劳动力。起点是在冠状病毒大流行(2020年)开始时,由于移民工人的缺席,人们对粮食危机的担忧。这个问题在疫情早期就被提出,全球北方的粮食系统是否因依赖不稳定的移民工人而脆弱。鉴于这个问题,我们评估了丹麦、芬兰、挪威和瑞典的农民和不同行为者对正在发生的粮食危机的反应。在许多方面,北欧国家的反应彼此相似,也与全球北方更广泛的反应相似,我们关注这些反应,因为它们与移民工人有关,从最初的恐慌到尽管疫情仍在继续,但仍恢复正常。最终,2020年被证明是北欧食品生产的好年份,部分原因是移民工人能够前来。我们讨论了北欧国家在疫情期间没有面临干扰的原因,绘制了北欧国家农业和粮食生产中移民劳动力的不稳定和细分模式,并提出了进一步研究的问题。[发件人]Sociologia Ruralis的版权归Wiley Blackwell所有,未经版权持有人明确书面许可,不得将其内容复制或通过电子邮件发送到多个网站或发布到listserv。但是,用户可以打印、下载或通过电子邮件发送文章供个人使用。这可能会被删节。对复印件的准确性不作任何保证。用户应参考材料的原始发布版本以获取完整信息。(版权适用于所有人。)
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Sociologia Ruralis
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7.30
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58
期刊介绍: Sociologia Ruralis reflects the diversity of European social-science research on rural areas and related issues. The complexity and diversity of rural problems require multi and interdisciplinary approaches. Over the past 40 years Sociologia Ruralis has been an international forum for social scientists engaged in a wide variety of disciplines focusing on social, political and cultural aspects of rural development. Sociologia Ruralis covers a wide range of subjects, ranging from farming, natural resources and food systems to rural communities, rural identities and the restructuring of rurality.
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