Migration and Agriculture: Mobility and Change in the Mediterranean Area

Abstract

The importance of this book is writ large in the headlines of the day."UN agencies urge Italy to let migrants get off rescue boat.""EU leaders address migration at summit following UNHCR refugee report.""Almost 600 migrants died crossing Med in 2019."And these are just the headlines from a single day-June 21, 2019.It is clear that as a socio-political issue, international migration looms large in the Mediterranean, as it does in almost every corner of the globe.What is less clear, or at least what gets lost in the headlines, is that agriculture plays a crucial role.Migration and Agriculture: Mobility and Change in the Mediterranean Area fills this gap.By focusing on case studies of agricultural restructuring and labor mobility in the Mediterranean, the book brings analyses of the global food system into public debates around migration, and discussions about labor migration to the study of food regimes.There is arguably no region better suited for this task than the Mediterranean, which, along with the southern border of the United States, has been ground zero for the global migration crisis.Part of the Routledge series on rural livelihoods, Migration and Agriculture is edited by three European scholars who have written extensively about migrant farm workers in Europe.Contributors to the volume come from a range of countries and disciplines, many of whom attended a 2013 conference at the University of Bergamo in Italy.The book covers cases from both Mediterranean Europe and the Maghreb.Most chapters are ethnographic in nature, drawing

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