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Changing labor standards and ‘subordinated inclusion’: Thai migrant workers in the Swedish forest berry industry
Umeå universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för geografi.ORCID-id: 0000-0002-7643-0272
Umeå universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för geografi.
Umeå universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för geografi.
Stockholm University.
2020 (Engelska)Ingår i: International Labour Migration to Europe’s Rural Regions / [ed] Johan Fredrik Rye, Karen O’Reilly, London: Routledge, 2020, s. 121-138Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Refereegranskat)
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The forest berry industry in northern Sweden operates within a competitive global market for nutritious wild berries and is dependent on seasonal migrant workers. This chapter analyses actual wage levels of these workers after a series of new regulations surrounding migration and labour standards. Labour standards improved in Sweden in 2010 with the implementation of collective agreements and work contracts for non-European Economic Area berry pickers, the only country employing such standards within this type of industry. We discuss how, despite these improvements, Thai migrant berry pickers continue to be exploited in a process that we theorise as subordinated inclusion. The chapter is based on unique survey material with berry pickers and in-depth interviews with migrant workers during the berry season in Sweden and off-season in Thailand. We focus on actual wages, while also placing our analysis in the context of the industry’s peripherality and changing geographies of production and consumption. One third of the workers in the survey reported earnings below the income they are entitled to according to the work contracts. Despite deploying varying forms of resistance and the recent regulation of labour standards for migrant labour, we conclude that the fulfilment of their formal rights is still lacking.The forest berry industry in northern Sweden operates within a competitive global market for nutritious wild berries and is dependent on seasonal migrant workers. This chapter analyses actual wage levels of these workers after a series of new regulations surrounding migration and labour standards. It focuses on unique survey material with berry pickers and in-depth interviews with migrant workers during the berry season in Sweden and off-season in Thailand. The changes in the globalising labour markets and the varying forms of conditions and access to rights granted to different groups of migrant workers in relation to national systems provide examples of severe employment inequalities worldwide. Work in rural economic sectors such as agriculture, forestry, or industries of non-timber forest products links increasingly to global value chains and their institutional, ideological, and economic dynamics. The analysis of the survey shows that the earnings for Thai berry pickers many times were considerably lower than the collective agreement had stipulated.

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London: Routledge, 2020. s. 121-138
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Internationell Migration och Etniska Relationer (IMER) Social och ekonomisk geografi
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kulturgeografi
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-177931DOI: 10.4324/9781003022367ISBN: 9780367900717 (tryckt)ISBN: 9781003022367 (digital)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-177931DiVA, id: diva2:1512198
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Forskningsrådet Formas, 2013-01457Vetenskapsrådet, 2017-01010Tillgänglig från: 2020-12-22 Skapad: 2020-12-22 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-07-06Bibliografiskt granskad

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