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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_6604
dc.contributor.author	Dal Zotto Emanuela
dc.contributor.author	Lo Cascio Martina
dc.contributor.author	Piro Valeria
dc.title	The Emergency Management of Migration and Agricultural Workforce during the Pandemic. The Contradictory Outcomes of the 2020 Amnesty Law
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The chapter aims to illustrate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and, in particular, of the of amnesty law passed by the Italian government in May 2020 for migrants working in agriculture, highlighting the continuity of the latter measure with the previous policies regulating migration and agricultural labour. For decades, these policies have managed both international migrations and domestic mobility of the seasonal labour force through an emergency approach. The chapter resorts on data collected through statistics, interviews and participant observation inside informal settlements in the South of Italy. In conclusion, we argue that the health emergency accelerates the resort to administrative and bureaucratic emergency practices in the management of migrations, thus contributing to the reproduction of an emergency frame, that relegates labourers to the role of ‘victims of exploitation’, and at the same time regulates their possibility of movement and their employment opportunities.
dc.relation.ispartof	Società e trasformazioni sociali
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-10-27
dc.dateAccepted	2021-07-30
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-07-15
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-533-9/the-emergency-management-of-migration-and-agricult/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-532-2/014
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9085
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9689
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-533-9
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-532-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Agriculture
dc.subject	Agriculture
dc.subject	Amnesty
dc.subject	Amnesty
dc.subject	Emergency
dc.subject	Emergency
dc.subject	Informal settlements
dc.subject	Informal settlements
dc.subject	Migrant farmworkers
dc.subject	Migrant farmworkers
dc.subject	Reception system
dc.subject	Reception system

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The Emergency Management of Migration and Agricultural Workforce during the Pandemic

The Contradictory Outcomes of the 2020 Amnesty Law

Emanuela Dal Zotto Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italia

Martina Lo Cascio Università degli Studi di Parma, Italia

Valeria Piro Università di Padova

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abstract

The chapter aims to illustrate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and, in particular, of the of amnesty law passed by the Italian government in May 2020 for migrants working in agriculture, highlighting the continuity of the latter measure with the previous policies regulating migration and agricultural labour. For decades, these policies have managed both international migrations and domestic mobility of the seasonal labour force through an emergency approach. The chapter resorts on data collected through statistics, interviews and participant observation inside informal settlements in the South of Italy. In conclusion, we argue that the health emergency accelerates the resort to administrative and bureaucratic emergency practices in the management of migrations, thus contributing to the reproduction of an emergency frame, that relegates labourers to the role of ‘victims of exploitation’, and at the same time regulates their possibility of movement and their employment opportunities.

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Oct. 27, 2021

Accepted

July 30, 2021

Submitted

July 15, 2021

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978-88-6969-533-9

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978-88-6969-532-2

Keywords: Agriculture • Informal settlements • Emergency • Migrant farmworkers • Amnesty • Reception system

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