Managing Uncertainty: Immigration Policies in Spain during Economic Recession (2008-2011)
Resumen en: The global economic crisis has changed the landscape of immigration dynam­ ics and migration policies management in Spain, introducing a new immigration ...
Il governo del lavoro migrante in agricoltura in Spagna e Italia. Meccanismi legali e promesse [ipotesi] di circolarità
During the 1980s, Italy and Spain began to become immigrat countries, with a process that, from an economic and labor point of view, has affected some sectors in particular, including agriculture. The employment of foreign workers in agriculture has allowed to increase its profitability levels in both countries, contributing, more generally, to the systemic function of cheap food production, which is one of the four key pillars of the global accumulation process, along with the availability of labor, energy and cheap raw materials. The recruitment of foreign labor has not been homogeneous in the different productive contexts but has been differentiated according to the needs and demands of businesses operating in each agricultural enclave. This article analyzes, through a comparative perspective, the institutional, legal and informal mechanisms envisaged and implemented in Spain and Italy to encourage the recruitment of foreign workforce, by verifying how and why circular migration programs onto the agricultural sector have been, or not, promoted. To understand how these policies have actually been implemented, two productive enclaves have been compared: Huelva, in Spain, and Piana del Sele, in southern Italy, so as to identify the factors that explain why some agricultural enclaves of the world-ecology have configured systems to import labour from the global periphery, while others have privileged a deregulated model.
Bodies of Evidence: Burial, Memory and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus
List of Figures and Maps Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Heirs of Antigone: Disappearances and Political Memory Chapter 2. Suppressed Experiences Chapter 3. Testimonies of Fragmentation, Recollections of Unity Chapter 4. The Missing as a Set of Representations Chapter 5. The Martyrdom of the Missing Chapter 6. L'image Juste, or Juste une Image? Chapter 7. Painting Absences, Describing Losses Chapter 8. Antigone's Doubt, Creon's Dilemma Chapter 9. Power, Complicity, and Public Secrecy Bibliography Appendices Index