Abstract
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.
This article providesa critical analysis of the mobility, labor, and political strategies of migration from Spain to Brussels following the 2008 economic crisis, comparing it with past migration ...flows. of the data used in this study is based onfieldwork conducted from 2018 to 2020, which involved qualitative interviews with Spanish migrants. The results allow us to identify two distinct mobility profiles: first, individuals who relocated to Brussels and interrupted their labor trajectories in Spain, and second, those who migrated as part of a transnational professional project. These two profiles exhibit different strategies in terms of mobility, labor insertion, and transnational political participation. Our analysis contributes to the existing literature on new intra-European mobilities from South to North, specifically focusing on the context of Brussels as a global city with dual characteristics, which provides opportunities as well as precarious conditions for these new migrants.
This article provides a critical analysis of the mobility, labor, and political strategies of migration from Spain to Brussels following the 2008 economic crisis, comparing it with past migration ...flows. The data used in this study is based on fieldwork conducted from 2018 to 2020, which involved qualitative interviews with Spanish migrants. The results allow us to identify two distinct mobility profiles: first, individuals who relocated to Brussels and interrupted their labor trajectories in Spain, and second, those who migratedas part of a transnational professional project. These two profiles exhibit different strategies in terms of mobility, labor insertion, and transnational political participation. Our analysis contributes to the existing literature onnew intra-European mobilities from South to North, specifically focusing on the context of Brussels as a global city with dual characteristics, which provides opportunities as well as precarious conditions for these new migrants.
Este artículo ofrece un análisis crítico de las estrategias de movilidad, laborales y políticas de las migraciones desde España hacia Bruselas a partir de la crisis económica de 2008, en contraste con los flujos del pasado. Los datos que lo sustentan son resultado del trabajo de campo realizado durante 2018-2020 con migrantes de nacionalidad española, basado principalmente en entrevistas cualitativas. Los resultados permiten describir dos perfiles de movilidad específicos: por una parte, el de quienes marcharon a Bruselas interrumpiendo su trayectoria laboral en España y, por otra, el de quienes se desplazaron hasta la capital belga en el marco de un proyecto profesional transnacional. Estos dos perfiles se proyectan en estrategias diferenciadas de movilidad, inserción laboral y participación política transnacional. Nuestro análisis complementa estudios recientes sobre nuevas movilidades intraeuropeas Sur-Norte, en este caso dirigidas a Bruselas, ciudad global dual generadora de oportunidades, pero también de precariedades para los/as nuevos migrantes.
