Limits of solidarity: immigration enforcement, labour control and im/mobility in Washington State

Montange, Leah

doi:10.1080/14747731.2022.2042930

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“…Yet, as this study has shown, farmworkers continue to experience inequitable access to protections and resources that are critical to their occupational and overall well-being. Research on contemporary guestworker programs, such as the U.S.'s H-2A visa program and Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SWAP), show that these programs uphold power inequalities that serve capitalist agriculture at the expense of migrant, Black, and Latinx farmworkers [31,74]. Other farmworker health studies have underscored the need for immigration policy to provide undocumented farmworkers with a clear pathway to citizenship and empower them with access to worker rights and protections and the social safety net [9,75,76].…”

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“…Being an undocumented or H2-A visa worker enhances vulnerability to worker mistreatment and severe exploitation [27,28]. Undocumented farmworkers have reported wage theft concerns [29,30] and H2-A farmworkers have reported abuse and mistreatment by employers, including debt bondage [31]. Both undocumented and H2-A farmworkers may be hesitant to report labor and workplace safety violations due to fear of deportation and job loss [32,33].…”

Section: The Political Economy Of Farmworker Healthmentioning

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The Influence of Organizational Aspects of the U.S. Agricultural Industry and Socioeconomic and Political Conditions on Farmworkers’ COVID-19 Workplace Safety

Perez-Lua,

Chan-Golston,

Burke

et al. 2023

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Farmworkers in the U.S. experienced high rates of COVID-19 infection and mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their workplace may have been a significant place of exposure to the novel coronavirus. Using political economy of health theory, this study sought to understand how organizational aspects of the agricultural industry and broader socioeconomic and political conditions shaped farmworkers’ COVID-19 workplace safety during the pandemic. Between July 2020 and April 2021, we conducted and analyzed fourteen in-depth, semi-structured phone interviews with Latinx farmworkers in California. Findings show that regulatory oversight reinforced COVID-19 workplace safety. In the absence of regulatory oversight, the organization of the agricultural industry produced COVID-19 workplace risks for farmworkers; it normalized unsafe working conditions and the worker—rather than employer—responsibility for workplace safety. Under these conditions, farmworkers enacted personal COVID-19 preventative practices but were limited by financial hardships that were exacerbated by the precarious nature of agricultural employment and legal status exclusions from pandemic-related aid. Unsafe workplace conditions negatively impacted workplace camaraderie. Study findings have implications for farmworkers’ individual and collective agency to achieve safe working conditions. Occupational safety interventions must address the organizational aspects that produce workplace health and safety inequities and disempower farmworkers in the workplace.

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Section: The Political Economy Of Farmworker Healthmentioning

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The Influence of Organizational Aspects of the U.S. Agricultural Industry and Socioeconomic and Political Conditions on Farmworkers’ COVID-19 Workplace Safety

Perez-Lua,

Chan-Golston,

Burke

et al. 2023

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“…In the first of two case studies presented by Montange (2022), increased federal immigration enforcement created a labor shortage for employers in the shellfish, cranberry and tourist industries in the Washington state county where she undertook fieldwork. Describing an impressive array of activities undertaken by a local grassroots alliance to support those affected by immigration enforcement, she notes that employers" involvement in these efforts marked a "tenuous, informal confluence of interests" amongst "advocates, employers and migrants" (2022: 2).…”

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Unfreedom in labour relations: from a politics of rescue to a politics of solidarity?

2022

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In this introduction to the Special Forum we seek to explore the possibilities for challenging labor unfreedoms through exercising solidarity. We critique the prevailing framings and dominant politics of 'combatting modernday slavery' -or what we refer to here as contemporary abolitionism.We argue that questions of coercion, control, and confinement are nonetheless increasingly pertinent to the analysis of contemporary labor relations and labor regimes. This leads us to reflect on how we might better conceptualise the many forms of unfreedom that are imposed on working people. We then explore the possibilities for a liberatory politics of solidarity that might challenge such unfreedoms. Finally, we summarise how the articles in the Special Forum engage with existing debates, and point us in new and fruitful directions for the task of confrontingintellectually and politically -the ways that contemporary labour relations are variously structured by unfreedoms.* Contemporary abolitionism, which we critique here, should not be confused with 'abolition geography' that continues to inspire us and which has emerged out of decades of critical analysis of racial capitalism alongside grassroots solidarity and resistance (see Gilmore, 2022).

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“They Will Destroy Themselves Wanting Purely American”: Labor and Carceral Immigration Enforcement in the U.S. Pacific Northwest

Montange

2022

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Limits of solidarity: immigration enforcement, labour control and im/mobility in Washington State

Cited by 3 publications

References 43 publications

The Influence of Organizational Aspects of the U.S. Agricultural Industry and Socioeconomic and Political Conditions on Farmworkers’ COVID-19 Workplace Safety

The Influence of Organizational Aspects of the U.S. Agricultural Industry and Socioeconomic and Political Conditions on Farmworkers’ COVID-19 Workplace Safety

Unfreedom in labour relations: from a politics of rescue to a politics of solidarity?

“They Will Destroy Themselves Wanting Purely American”: Labor and Carceral Immigration Enforcement in the U.S. Pacific Northwest

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