Esenciales pero olvidados. Migrantes recogiendo frutas durante la pandemia de COVID-19 en Valencia

Pérez, Francisco Torres; Alonso, Yaiza Pérez

doi:10.3989/estgeogr.2022118.118

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“…Our analysis reveals that even in exceptional times characterized by serious social and health crises, states have been largely reticent, and in some cases openly opposed to expanding the rights of migrants with precarious statuses, thus consolidating the approaches toward managing migration that are blind to social justice concerns articulated by activists. In the case of migrant farmworkers, the health crisis revealed a social justice paradox: without secure status these workers are simultaneously recognized as essential yet condemned to the worst social and economic conditions that put their lives in danger (Pedreño, 2020;Torres & Pérez, 2022).…”

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Ambivalent Resonance: Advocacy for Secure Status for Migrant Farm Workers in Spain, Italy and Canada during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Basok

López-Sala²,

Avallone³

2023

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Drawing on insights from scholarship on contentious action frames, this article examines the framing of demands for social justice for migrant farmworkers in Spain, Italy and Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus particularly on how activists in each country aligned their action frames with prevalent public discourses on the essential contribution migrants make to agricultural production, the need to guarantee “health for all,” and “increased vulnerability” of migrants’ lives during the global health crisis. Using these diagnostic frames, activists in the three countries called for secure legal status for all migrants. Drawing on the literature on contentious action frames, we then analyze if action frames advanced by activists during the COVID-19 pandemic “resonated” with the understanding of these issues by policymakers. We challenge an approach to understanding resonance in binary terms as either present or absent. Instead, we introduce the notion of “ambivalent resonance” to draw attention to the fact that some frames are accepted only partially or only by some policymakers but not the others, as was the case in the three countries under study. We then situate this ambivalent resonance in the context of immigration priorities and recent trends in immigration policy development in these three countries and suggest that activists can build on ambivalences to advance migrant rights to status.

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