Worksite Camps for Seasonal Female Moroccan Workers in Huelva (Spain): Invisibilization and Identity Assignment
Résumé
The processes of invisibilization and isolation mark the housing conditions of female Moroccan farmworkers recruited to work in the Huelva strawberry production sector. This emerges from an in-depth enquiry, in both Morocco and Spain, embracing the various institutional actors and women concerned. The women are recruited within the framework of contratos en origen. This means that both the recruitment process and the signing of temporary work contracts take place in Morocco, and that those recruited - married women with young children - undertake to return there. In Spain, the province of Huelva, which has become a laboratory for this type of utilitarian, seasonal-work migration, benefits from specially targeted EU financial measures. Housing for the women is either to be found in the workplace - the campo, in endogenous terminology - or in inmigrant workers' hostels. These places speak volumes about the particular way in which the female Moroccan migrants are constructed as a specific category of foreigners at the intersection of gender, ethnicity and social class. In this paper we analyze these processes via the concept of worksite camp, which results from a dual constraint : that of housing, and that of identity.
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