Quand les migrants balkaniques rencontrent ceux venus du Sud

Potot, Swanie

doi:10.4000/balkanologie.470

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“…At the same time, the higher wages in their home country possibly make temporary work in the German agricultural sector less attractive (Stark andFan, 2007 in Wagner andHassel, 2016). In Italy and Spain, on the other hand, Romanians have a better status than that of African migrants (Hellio 2008, Perrota 2013, Potot 2003. As regards the Italian agricultural sector, Perrota (2013) shows that, while migrants from Burkina Faso are mostly involved in seasonal migration and manual labour, Romanians often also perform mechanised labour and have stable jobs in agriculture or are also employed in other sectors too.…”

Section: Seasonal Workers Abroad: Articulations Of Agencymentioning

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“I wanted to see how to make money there too”: Mobility strategies of Romanian seasonal workers in the agricultural sector abroad

Voivozeanu

2020

Social Change Review

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Drawing on interviews with key informants and seasonal workers in Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria and the UK, and on non-participant ethnographies, this paper demonstrates that, despite various limitations associated with work in the agriculture sector, migrants strategically choose the times and destinations of their trips abroad, taking into account a variety of factors, including family commitments, economic goals at the origin, wages and working conditions, health issues and welfare opportunities. The findings illustrate that, depending on their commitments and economic objectives, Romanians who work in agriculture develop different mobility practices. While some work abroad only occasionally, when they need to supplement their home-country income, others engage in circular migration or extend the periods of time they spend abroad. In host countries, most workers try out various jobs and typically get involved in repeated migration once they have found a suitable arrangement. Some workers combine seasonal work in one or more countries of destination, over the course of the same year, with the aim of securing income for longer periods of time, while others opt for long-term migration or move into sectors that offer better opportunities.

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Section: Seasonal Workers Abroad: Articulations Of Agencymentioning

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“I wanted to see how to make money there too”: Mobility strategies of Romanian seasonal workers in the agricultural sector abroad

Voivozeanu

2020

Social Change Review

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“…A second Romanian migrant enclave analysed by Potot (2003) settled in the El Ejido area of Spain. Here, informal work opportunities in the agricultural sector were widely available, and Romanian workers were easily accepted by the local population.…”

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The Post-Enlargement Migration Space

Ruspini¹

2008

International Migration in Europe

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Ovidiu Laurian SIMINA, PhD candidate in Economics at the West University of Timisoara, is law graduate (Law Faculty of the Bucharest Police Academy, specialisation: border police, immigration, asylum and refugees) and holds an MA in High European Studies from the School of High Comparative European Studies (SISEC), West University of Timisoara. Five years experience as immigration and border police officer (both at the Border Police checkpoints and at the "green" border -Romanian border with Serbia and Hungary) and one year as legal adviser (Legal Department of Ministry of Interior). Currently, Mr. Simina is personal adviser to the state secretary for liaison with the Parliament and European Affairs, Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform, Romanian Government. His project Migratie.ro aims at promoting the inclusion of the migration and mobility studies in the Romanian academic curricula. Mr. Simina is member of World Jurist Association (WJA)

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States, markets, and other unexceptional communities: informal Romanian labour in a Spanish agricultural zone

Hartman

2008

Royal Anthropological Inst

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The logic of transnational capital and the ongoing European imperative of ‘competition’ have created unofficial economies, seemingly exceptional situations in which the state is left to grapple with the problem of essential but ‘illegal’ labour in spaces in which it is no longer unambiguously sovereign. This article discusses Romanian labourers working informally, and often temporarily, in an agricultural area characterized by intensive plastic greenhouse production in Almería province, Spain. Informal employment is arranged through personal contacts and connections, advertisements, or anonymously in the plaza, the public square. Wages are often negotiated through the person of a Romanian intermediary, who organizes workers into teams, contracts with Spanish growers, and retains a significant proportion of the total pay. It is argued here that although technically outside of state jurisdiction, some of this ‘illegal’ economic activity embodies normalized, unexceptional features of the ‘official’ labour market. These include the general reliability of obtaining work with predictable wages and some opportunity for occupational and economic mobility within the sector for a limited number of people, as well as work‐related hierarchies, a racialized division of the area's labour force, and the reproduction of capitalist relations of production in the interests of prolonging the provision of flexible and cheap migrant labour with the complicity of the state. Résumé La logique du capital transnational et l'impératif européen de « concurrence » ont donné naissance à des économies non officielles, situations apparemment exceptionnelles dans lesquelles l'État doit résoudre le problème d'une main‐d'œuvre indispensable mais « illégale » dans des espaces où il n'est plus entièrement souverain. L'auteur décrit ici le travail informel et souvent temporaire de Roumains dans une région agricole de la province d'Almería, en Espagne, caractérisée par une production intensive sous serres en plastique. Les embauches informelles s'organisent par contacts personnels et relations, par petites annonces, ou de façon anonyme sur les places de village. Les salaires sont souvent négociés par un intermédiaire roumain qui organise aussi les équipes d'ouvriers, sous‐traite avec les cultivateurs espagnols et se réserve une part conséquente de la paie. Bien qu'elle échappe techniquement à la juridiction de l'État, une partie de cette activitééconomique « illégale » reprend des caractéristiques normalisées et ordinaires du marché du travail « officiel » : fiabilité d'un travail rémunéré de façon prévisible, possibilité de mobilité professionnelle et économique dans le secteur pour un nombre limité de personnes, hiérarchisation du travail, division racialisée de la main‐d'œuvre dans la région, reproduction des relations capitalistes de production en vue de prolonger la fourniture de main‐d'œuvre migrante flexible et bon marché, avec la complicité des pouvoirs publics.

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Quand les migrants balkaniques rencontrent ceux venus du Sud

Abstract: Association française d'études sur les Balkans (Afebalk)

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“I wanted to see how to make money there too”: Mobility strategies of Romanian seasonal workers in the agricultural sector abroad

“I wanted to see how to make money there too”: Mobility strategies of Romanian seasonal workers in the agricultural sector abroad

The Post-Enlargement Migration Space

States, markets, and other unexceptional communities: informal Romanian labour in a Spanish agricultural zone

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