Globalización desde arriba y desde abajo en el Valle de San Quintín, en Oxnard y en otros territorios de producción fresera

Abstract

The article will analyze different recruiting methods adopted by local farms located in the San Quintin Valley, in Baja California, and transnational companies that operate in the strawberry sector in both Mexico and the United States. This valley is a fundamental route for migrants from southern Mexico who travel to the north of the country and the U.S. The article draws on the fieldwork carried out during 2016 and 2017, in San Quintin and Oxnard (U.S.), where the presence of the same agri-food corporations allows an analysis of their economic and territorial strategies. The methodology has been based on quantitative and especially qualitative techniques.

Agricultural Personnel Diversity Management Scale: Design, reliability and validity

“…The business demographics indicate the presence of small farmers and large national and foreign agricultural companies, as well as U.S. transnationals that also produce, but are the ones who purchase and market the harvest. Together these companies mobilize migrants -from rural areas of southern and central Mexico, as well as from the states of Sinaloa and Sonora-to incorporate them into their crews either in the fields or in the packing houses; many of these migrants in recent years have opted to settle down (Garrapa, 2020;Moreno and Niño, 2004).…”