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- Title
African Immigrant Workers in Spanish Agriculture.
- Authors
Hoggart, Keith; Mendoza, Cristóbal
- Abstract
The article focuses on the non-European immigrant population in rural Europe. Up to the oil crisis of 1973, the vast bulk of immigration into north-central Europe was directed toward cities. Immigration to rural areas was much smaller, even though it made an important contribution to farm labor in some countries. One indication of this was targeted government efforts to recruit foreign workers for agriculture. In Germany, for instance, 54 per cent of registered seasonal immigrant workers in 1992 were employed in agriculture. The key to understanding geographical divergence lies in the character of regional labor markets. Moreover, it should be emphasized that the role agriculture takes in African employment is not unique. Through agriculture, rural areas are intricately woven into immigrant employment experiences. This should not blind us to two disconcerting dimensions of immigrant employment in Spanish farming. The first is that African work experiences prompt worrying reminders of immigrant and ethnic minority employment in United States agriculture.
- Subjects
EUROPE; FOREIGN agricultural laborers; IMMIGRANTS; AFRICAN foreign workers; RURAL development; RURAL industries; SEASONAL employment
- Publication
Sociologia Ruralis, 1999, Vol 39, Issue 4, p538
- ISSN
0038-0199
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9523.00123