Yoan Molinero-Gerbeau
Biographic Data
| ID | 1258884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yoan Molinero-Gerbeau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yoan |
| FAMILY NAME | Molinero-Gerbeau |
| SIGNATURE | MOLINERO-GERBEAU Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9808-1106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Institutionalized Trafficking and the Gendered Governance of Seasonal Migration in Spanish Agriculture
Institutionalized trafficking is introduced in this article as a new conceptual category that expands the definition of human trafficking and broadens its analytical perspective for examining how trafficking-related dynamics may operate within formally regulated systems. Through a case study of Moroccan female seasonal workers in Spain, the study analyzes 41 legal texts (1985–2026) alongside empirical literature, examining the Temporary Migration…
Haitian Reserve Army of Labor
Haiti has endured both natural and man-made violence since colonization, shaping its population into a global reserve army of labor for the world-system. This paper examines how historical and structural factors, including colonialism, political instability, and economic exploitation, have contributed to the creation of a vulnerable population appropriable as a cheap labor force. It explores how these factors, compounded by phenomenological viole…
Mapping discrimination in Spain
This article analyses structural inequalities and policy responses to discrimination in Spain through a critical documentary analysis of the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) country reports (2014–2022). Discrimination disproportionately affects racialised and minority groups, impacting economic mobility, social cohesion, and mental health. While Spain has implemented measures to address these challenges, enforcement remains a critical issue. This …
State Thought and Migration
This paper analyses temporary migration programs (TMPs) as a manifestation of the “State thought” ideology, drawing on Abdelmalek Sayad’s sociological framework. Sayad considers the State central to the migration system, shaping perceptions and practices around migration through its ideological and structural dominance. The paper first explores how the State constructs hegemonic ideologies around migration, emphasising the dichotomy between natio…
We work in the light but get paid in the dark”
This study examines the exploitation of Haitian migrant workers in the Dominican Republic’s sugarcane industry, focusing on structural violence, racial discrimination, and capitalist labor extraction. Based on fieldwork in El Seibo and San Pedro de Macorís, it reveals how legal precarity, forced dependency, and spatial segregation maintain the subjugation of Haitian laborers. The Dominican state and sugar companies produce and reproduce a reserve…
Structural, historical, and geopolitical violence as an identity marker of Haitian nationals and migrants
Recuperar la nacionalidad como premio. Utilitarismo migratorio y pensamiento de Estado en el programa Visar en España
Este artículo aplica las teorías críticas de Abdelmalek Sayad sobre la gestión migratoria estatal al análisis del programa VISAR, un proyecto del Estado español dirigido a descendientes de españoles residentes en Argentina. Sayad, destacado por su enfoque sobre cómo los Estados moldean la movilidad humana, proporciona una lente teórica que permite entender el profundo componente político de esta iniciativa. El caso del VISAR constituye un reflejo…
Anthropocene, Capitalocene or Westernocene? On the Ideological Foundations of the Current Climate Crisis
In the current debate on the causes, consequences and solutions for the climate crisis, it will be argued that the hegemonic discourse of the Anthropocene implies a problematic anthropological, ecological, historical and scientific perspective, as, by reproducing a Cartesian dualist view, it replicates the ideological schemes that are at the origin of the crisis. Therefore, after exposing the main assumptions of the Anthropocene, a critique is pr…
They think you belong to them
c) 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properlycited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted M…
A life on standby”. The effects of irregular status and the pursuit of regularity on the quality of life of unaccompanied minors in Spain
This article aims at discussing the intersections between unaccompanied migrant minors' (UAM) irregular status and its consequences for their quality of life by focusing on the Spanish context. The research is based on the data collected during a qualitative fieldwork conducted by the authors in a specific reception centre, Sant Joan de Déu-Terres de Lleida, in the province of Lleida (Catalonia) that consisted of 12 in-depth interviews with UAMs,…
Coming out of the shadows? Housing conditions of irregular migrant workers in Spanish agricultural enclaves
The development of industrial agriculture in Spain has been accompanied, in recent decades, by an itinerant, recurrent and temporary mobility of immigrant workers between different productive enclaves. Although this group presents a wide internal diversity, an important segment of it is made up of workers in an irregular situation who participate in the seasonal circuit and who reside temporarily in some of these intensive production geographies.…
Intersections of precariousness. Vulnerability and quality of life of migrants with irregular status
Liberar las migraciones
The migrant category is linked to the origin of the State as the predominant political unit in the world. This is because, as Abdelmalek Sayad (2008, 2010a) pointed out, without a State, there would be no migrants, as they exist as a political category, referring to the nationals of a State who cross the borders to settle (temporarily or permanently). This functional and historical connection has had a decisive impact at the epistemological level…
El legado de Immanuel Wallerstein. In memoriam
El trabajo ambulante
Los manteros senegaleses de la ciudad de Salerno han sido objeto, en los últimos años, de políticas represivas fruto del ordenamiento neoliberal del espacio público que se ha impulsado desde las instituciones de esta ciudad. A través de este estudio de caso buscaremos reflejar las principales características del conflicto, así como las respuestas de los actores involucrados. Podrá verse de esta manera que, frente a la represión ejercida contra es…
Ecología-mundo, un nuevo paradigma para el estudio de las migraciones internacionales
A lo largo del siglo XX y comienzos del XXI la comunidad académica ha desarrollado numerosas teorías para explicar el fenómeno de las migraciones internacionales, tal como Massey et al. (1998) recogieron en su famoso libro “Worlds in motion”. Sin embargo, una mayoría de estudios producidos en este campo se han referido principalmente a casos empíricos recurriendo al uso de los principales paradigmas cuyas explicaciones de la realidad han tendido …
Opening or closing borders to international students? Convergent and divergent dynamics in France, Spain and the UK
While attracting international students is the declared objective of many countries of the global North, the regulation of movements of this migrant group does not escape the tensions that characterise policymaking on migration. This paper compares the evolution of student migration policies in three major European destinations – France, Spain and the UK – since the late 1990s. The aim is to evaluate whether policies in this area have converged o…
Producing Cheap Food and Labour
Through the perspective of world-ecology, one of the most recent approaches in international relations, we aim to analyse global capitalism as an ecological project based on the appropriation of human and extra-human nature oriented to support capital accumulation process. Agriculture and its labour force occupy a central role in maintaining the world-system in which global chains, international migrations and centre-periphery relationships inter…
Anthropocene, Capitalocene or Westernocene? On the Ideological Foundations of the Current Climate Crisis
In the current debate on the causes, consequences and solutions for the climate crisis, it will be argued that the hegemonic discourse of the Anthropocene implies a problematic anthropological, ecological, historical and scientific perspective, as, by reproducing a Cartesian dualist view, it replicates the ideological schemes that are at the origin of the crisis. Therefore, after exposing the main assumptions of the Anthropocene, a critique is pr…
They think you belong to them
c) 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properlycited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted M…
Opening or closing borders to international students? Convergent and divergent dynamics in France, Spain and the UK
While attracting international students is the declared objective of many countries of the global North, the regulation of movements of this migrant group does not escape the tensions that characterise policymaking on migration. This paper compares the evolution of student migration policies in three major European destinations – France, Spain and the UK – since the late 1990s. The aim is to evaluate whether policies in this area have converged o…
Liberar las migraciones
The migrant category is linked to the origin of the State as the predominant political unit in the world. This is because, as Abdelmalek Sayad (2008, 2010a) pointed out, without a State, there would be no migrants, as they exist as a political category, referring to the nationals of a State who cross the borders to settle (temporarily or permanently). This functional and historical connection has had a decisive impact at the epistemological level…
Producing Cheap Food and Labour
Through the perspective of world-ecology, one of the most recent approaches in international relations, we aim to analyse global capitalism as an ecological project based on the appropriation of human and extra-human nature oriented to support capital accumulation process. Agriculture and its labour force occupy a central role in maintaining the world-system in which global chains, international migrations and centre-periphery relationships inter…
Opening or closing borders to international students? Convergent and divergent dynamics in France, Spain and the UK
While attracting international students is the declared objective of many countries of the global North, the regulation of movements of this migrant group does not escape the tensions that characterise policymaking on migration. This paper compares the evolution of student migration policies in three major European destinations – France, Spain and the UK – since the late 1990s. The aim is to evaluate whether policies in this area have converged o…
El legado de Immanuel Wallerstein. In memoriam
El trabajo ambulante
Los manteros senegaleses de la ciudad de Salerno han sido objeto, en los últimos años, de políticas represivas fruto del ordenamiento neoliberal del espacio público que se ha impulsado desde las instituciones de esta ciudad. A través de este estudio de caso buscaremos reflejar las principales características del conflicto, así como las respuestas de los actores involucrados. Podrá verse de esta manera que, frente a la represión ejercida contra es…
Ecología-mundo, un nuevo paradigma para el estudio de las migraciones internacionales
A lo largo del siglo XX y comienzos del XXI la comunidad académica ha desarrollado numerosas teorías para explicar el fenómeno de las migraciones internacionales, tal como Massey et al. (1998) recogieron en su famoso libro “Worlds in motion”. Sin embargo, una mayoría de estudios producidos en este campo se han referido principalmente a casos empíricos recurriendo al uso de los principales paradigmas cuyas explicaciones de la realidad han tendido …
Liberar las migraciones
The migrant category is linked to the origin of the State as the predominant political unit in the world. This is because, as Abdelmalek Sayad (2008, 2010a) pointed out, without a State, there would be no migrants, as they exist as a political category, referring to the nationals of a State who cross the borders to settle (temporarily or permanently). This functional and historical connection has had a decisive impact at the epistemological level…
A life on standby”. The effects of irregular status and the pursuit of regularity on the quality of life of unaccompanied minors in Spain
This article aims at discussing the intersections between unaccompanied migrant minors' (UAM) irregular status and its consequences for their quality of life by focusing on the Spanish context. The research is based on the data collected during a qualitative fieldwork conducted by the authors in a specific reception centre, Sant Joan de Déu-Terres de Lleida, in the province of Lleida (Catalonia) that consisted of 12 in-depth interviews with UAMs,…
Coming out of the shadows? Housing conditions of irregular migrant workers in Spanish agricultural enclaves
The development of industrial agriculture in Spain has been accompanied, in recent decades, by an itinerant, recurrent and temporary mobility of immigrant workers between different productive enclaves. Although this group presents a wide internal diversity, an important segment of it is made up of workers in an irregular situation who participate in the seasonal circuit and who reside temporarily in some of these intensive production geographies.…
Intersections of precariousness. Vulnerability and quality of life of migrants with irregular status
Anthropocene, Capitalocene or Westernocene? On the Ideological Foundations of the Current Climate Crisis
In the current debate on the causes, consequences and solutions for the climate crisis, it will be argued that the hegemonic discourse of the Anthropocene implies a problematic anthropological, ecological, historical and scientific perspective, as, by reproducing a Cartesian dualist view, it replicates the ideological schemes that are at the origin of the crisis. Therefore, after exposing the main assumptions of the Anthropocene, a critique is pr…
They think you belong to them
c) 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properlycited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted M…
Structural, historical, and geopolitical violence as an identity marker of Haitian nationals and migrants
Recuperar la nacionalidad como premio. Utilitarismo migratorio y pensamiento de Estado en el programa Visar en España
Este artículo aplica las teorías críticas de Abdelmalek Sayad sobre la gestión migratoria estatal al análisis del programa VISAR, un proyecto del Estado español dirigido a descendientes de españoles residentes en Argentina. Sayad, destacado por su enfoque sobre cómo los Estados moldean la movilidad humana, proporciona una lente teórica que permite entender el profundo componente político de esta iniciativa. El caso del VISAR constituye un reflejo…
State Thought and Migration
This paper analyses temporary migration programs (TMPs) as a manifestation of the “State thought” ideology, drawing on Abdelmalek Sayad’s sociological framework. Sayad considers the State central to the migration system, shaping perceptions and practices around migration through its ideological and structural dominance. The paper first explores how the State constructs hegemonic ideologies around migration, emphasising the dichotomy between natio…
We work in the light but get paid in the dark”
This study examines the exploitation of Haitian migrant workers in the Dominican Republic’s sugarcane industry, focusing on structural violence, racial discrimination, and capitalist labor extraction. Based on fieldwork in El Seibo and San Pedro de Macorís, it reveals how legal precarity, forced dependency, and spatial segregation maintain the subjugation of Haitian laborers. The Dominican state and sugar companies produce and reproduce a reserve…
Institutionalized Trafficking and the Gendered Governance of Seasonal Migration in Spanish Agriculture
Institutionalized trafficking is introduced in this article as a new conceptual category that expands the definition of human trafficking and broadens its analytical perspective for examining how trafficking-related dynamics may operate within formally regulated systems. Through a case study of Moroccan female seasonal workers in Spain, the study analyzes 41 legal texts (1985–2026) alongside empirical literature, examining the Temporary Migration…
Haitian Reserve Army of Labor
Haiti has endured both natural and man-made violence since colonization, shaping its population into a global reserve army of labor for the world-system. This paper examines how historical and structural factors, including colonialism, political instability, and economic exploitation, have contributed to the creation of a vulnerable population appropriable as a cheap labor force. It explores how these factors, compounded by phenomenological viole…
Mapping discrimination in Spain
This article analyses structural inequalities and policy responses to discrimination in Spain through a critical documentary analysis of the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) country reports (2014–2022). Discrimination disproportionately affects racialised and minority groups, impacting economic mobility, social cohesion, and mental health. While Spain has implemented measures to address these challenges, enforcement remains a critical issue. This …
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