Introduction
In this exploration of the relationship between agriculture and immigration, we seek a history beyond one merely of general population movements or of agriculture as an ecological mode of living. The focus is on the various kinds of relationships the two human endeavors have with one another.
While people have long moved from one place to another in order to grow subsistence crops, based on seasonal, topographical, or some other factors, and while immigration is perhaps as often a result of the termination of agricultural activities, we will focus on transnational migration that entails the engagement in agricultural pursuits on “foreign” land, either voluntarily, inadvertently, or involuntarily, in the context of contemporary late capitalist, globalized agriculture.
The Nature and...
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Barfield, T. (Ed.). (1998). The dictionary of anthropology. Malden: Blackwell.
Cance, A. E. (1925). Immigrants and American agriculture. Journal of Farm Economics, 7(1), 102–114.
Charlton, D., & Taylor, J. E. (2013). Mexicans are leaving farm work: What does it mean for US agriculture and immigration policy? Agricultural and Resource Economics Update, 16, 1–4.
Cole, J. E., & Booth, S. S. (2007). Dirty work: Immigrants in domestic service, agriculture, and prostitution in Sicily. Lanham: Lexington Books.
Constance, D. H. (2008). The southern model of broiler production and its global implications. Culture & Agriculture, 30(1–2), 17–31.
Gkartzios, M. (2013). ‘Leaving Athens’: Narratives of counterurbanisation in times of crisis. Journal of Rural Studies, 32, 158–167.
Holmes, S. M. (2013). Fresh fruit, broken bodies: Migrant farmworkers in the United States (Vol. Vol. 27). Berkeley: University of California Press.
Klindienst, P. (2006). The earth knows my name: Food, culture, and sustainability in the gardens of ethnic Americans. Boston: Beacon Press.
Lawrence, C. (2007). Blood and oranges: Immigrant labor and European markets in rural Greece (Vol. Vol. 2). Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Martin, P. L., Fix, M., & Taylor, J. E. (2006). The new rural poverty: Agriculture & immigration in California. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.
Nitsiakos, V. (2003). Testimonies of Albanian immigrants. Athens: Odysseas. [in Greek].
Preibisch, K., & Otero, G. (2014). Does citizenship status matter in Canadian agriculture? Workplace health and safety for migrant and immigrant laborers. Rural Sociology, 79(2), 174–199.
Rowley-Conwy, P. (2011). Westward Ho! The spread of agriculture from Central Europe to the Atlantic. Current Anthropology, 52(S4), S431–S451.
Van der Geest, S., Mul, A., & Vermeulen, H. (2004). Linkages between migration and the care of frail older people: Observations from Greece, Ghana and The Netherlands. Ageing & Society, 24(3), 431–450.
Verinis, J. P. (2015). The black swans of Greece's global countrysides: Post-socialist immigrant farmers, small Greek farms, integration, and [under] development. Binghamton: State University of New York at Binghamton.
Voutira, E. (2007). Refugees in historical and comparative perspective. Konitsa summer school in anthropology, ethnography, and comparative folklore of the Balkans. Münster: LIT Verlag
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 Springer Nature B.V.
About this entry
Cite this entry
Verinis, J.P. (2019). Immigrants and Agriculture. In: Kaplan, D.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1179-9_619
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1179-9_619
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-94-024-1178-2
Online ISBN: 978-94-024-1179-9
eBook Packages: Religion and PhilosophyReference Module Humanities and Social SciencesReference Module Humanities