This edited collection aims to examine the global-rural relationship of migration that shapes rural places. It does this by acknowledging that to understand the impact of the international migration-global nexus, it is essential to explore how it is experienced at a local level - in the context of this book, rural regions. Focusing on agribusiness and rural development, as well as the othering of international migrants and the shifting boundaries of belonging in rural spaces, the chapters in this book examine how globalisation, with migration being a constitutive feature, influences different rural contexts in the ‘Global North’ and the impact this has on migrant populations. Chapters demonstrate the harsh lived experiences/realities characterised by mental health issues and emotional labour for migrants, occupational health and safety issues in the workplace and experiences of exclusion and racism from ‘host’ communities. These chapters taken together identify a rural-migration nexus where the relationship between international migration and localised rural spaces are mutually constitutive.
Author(s): Nathan Kerrigan, Philomena de Lima
Series: Rethinking Rural
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 239
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
Globalising the Rural, Ruralising the Global
Rural Migration as Global-Local Interdependencies in the Context of the Global North
The Rural-Migration Nexus
Structure of the Book
References
Chapter 2: Should I Stay or Should I Go? Developing Migrant-led Understandings of Welcoming Rural Communities
Introduction
Background to the Research
North Karelian Regional Context
The Finnish Policy Context
Discursive, Political and Lived Dimensions of a ‘Welcoming Community’
Data Analysis
The Analysis of Welcome as Having, Loving and Being
Welcome by Being Part of Loving Relationships
Being and Personal Fulfilment
Three Dimensions of Welcoming and Well-being
Conclusion: The Ambiguous Experiences of Welcoming in Rural Finland
References
Chapter 3: On the Hypermobility of Agricultural Workers in Europe: Life Courses Between Rural Moldova and Switzerland/the EU
Introduction
The Agricultural Labour Market in Switzerland and Europe
Translocal Life Course Perspectives Within a Post-/Decolonial Global Ethnography Approach
Translocal Life Trajectories of Workers from Moldova to Switzerland and the EU
Valeriu
Larisa and Petru
On Hypermobility: Personal Challenges and Structural Configurations
The Political Economy of Mobility Patterns
Effects of Hypermobility on Workers’ Health and Well-being
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: ‘Caging All Tigers’: Pathways to Occupational Health and Safety for Transnational Agricultural Workers in Canada
Introduction
Methods
Hierarchy of Prevention in Agriculture and Interventions in Canada
Temporary Migrant Labour in Canadian Agriculture
Results
TAWs’ Occupational Safety and Health Experiences
Six Steps to Safety Preventive Strategies in Agriculture for TAWs
Hazard Identification
Risk Assessment
Elimination of Hazards
Engineering Controls
Procedural and Administrative Controls
Use of Personal Protective Equipment and Education
Discussion
Developing ‘Transnational Optics’ for the Prevention of TAWs’ Health and Safety
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Living Better but Separated: The Emotional Impacts of the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme on Transmigrant Workers
Introduction
Context: The Canadian Seasonal and Temporary Agricultural Workers Programme and the Recruitment of Mexican Workers
Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme.
Geographical Spaces (i): A Sociodemographic Overview of the County of Arriaga, Chiapas, Mexico
Geographical Spaces (ii): A Sociodemographic Overview of the Main Counties of Yucatán Registered in CSAWP
The Canadian Seasonal and Temporary Agricultural Workers Programme: Othering as Policy
Why Emotions Matter: The Emotional-Affective Turn and Migration
Methodology
Distress among Chiapanecan and Yucatecan Workers
Emotional Images
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: Migrants, Refugees and Settlement Camps in the Rural and Urban Fringes of Serbia: Cultural Repertoires, Changing Understandings and Imaginings of the Other
Introduction
On the Road to Change: The Rural and Urban Fringe as Collateral Space?
Existing Racialised Difference in Rural Serbia
Centre, Periphery and Migration
Methods and Cultural Repertoires Theory
Changing Attitudes: Borders, Politics and Expediency
Concerns Around Culture, Extremism and Narratives of Risk
Fear of Crime and Reports in Social Media
Cultural Risks and Battlegrounds
Migrants in Rural Imaginings and Rural Life
Discussion
Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: Being Global and Being Regional: Refugee Entrepreneurship in Regional Australia
Introduction
Settlement of Refugees and Humanitarian Migrants in Regional and Rural Australia: An Overview
Refugee Entrepreneurs: Theoretical and Empirical Overviews
From Around the World to Regional and Rural Australia: Researching Refugee Entrepreneurship
Global Connections with Rural Australia
En Route to a Business
Establishing Diasporic and ‘Born Global’ Businesses
Rural-Global Connections
Conclusion
References
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Rural Translocality and Migration
Emotional Well-Being and Geographies
Welcoming Migrants and (Hostile) Hospitality
Future Directions
References
Index
