“…The pre-existing conditions characterising the political economy of agriculture shaped forms of control and exploitation during the pandemic, such as the mechanisms and intensity of the violence experienced in the countries of departure and arrival (Addison, 2023;Corrado & Palumbo, 2022;Keegan, 2023;Ramsaroop, 2023;Stead, 2023), the racialised and gendered exploitation experienced along the journey and in the farms and fields (Duenas et al, 2019;Madrigal, 2023;Ramsaroop, 2023;Stead, 2023), the opening or foreclosing of spaces and forms of organisation and resistance (Cohen & Hjalmarson, 2020;Madrigal, 2023;Ramsaroop, 2023) and the role of the capitalist state in reproducing subordination and conditions of visibility/invisibility (Addison, 2023;Cheng & Zani, 2023;Duenas et al, 2019;Ramsaroop, 2023;Rotz, 2017).…”