Negotiating the Wild West
Variegated neoliberalisation of the Swedish labour migration regime and the wild berry migration industry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4139801 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charla Hedberg (0000-0001-7888-780X, Umeå University, corresponding author), Irma Olofsson (0000-0003-2997-9059, Umeå University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 33-49 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0308518x211048195 |
| OpenAlex | W3207660060 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 37 |
Neoliberalisation processes have long permeated Western societies, including a common direction towards neoliberal migration regimes. This paper combines the perspective of variegated neoliberalisation with the recent literature on migration industries, to investigate the neoliberalisation of the Swedish labour migration regime and how it affected and interacted with the wild berry migration industry. It shows how neoliberalisation as a historical and spatially contingent process resulted in the distinct phases of intertwined policymaking and enactment of the industry. The 'roll back' phase included mutual interests and 'intimate relations' between state and industry, which both empowered and increased the number of private actors, creating structures that remained during the regular restructuring phase of 'roll out' neoliberalisation. While adding the perspective of variegated neoliberalisation, the paper deepens the analysis of migration industries by pointing at neoliberalisation as a spatial and temporal process, where the interplay between state and industry, an enlarged number of intermediaries and the increased responsibility of private actors are central cornerstones. The Swedish case shows how the role of intermediaries in the wild berry migration industry was reconstructed in order for the neoliberal migration regime to regulate a previously irregular migration industry. It is concluded that strong but spatially contingent links exist between neoliberal political economies, migration regimes and migration industries
Economic geography · Economics · Intermediary · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Labor Movements and Unions · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
The entanglement of employers and political elites in migration policymaking
Fragmented Spatialities. Migrant Farmworkers and the Social Production of Space Under Neoliberal Agriculture in the EU
Immigrant workers' movements in the U.S
School-to-work transitions in rural North Sweden
Socio-techno-ecological transition dynamics in the re-territorialization of food production
The abscence of labour in sustainable transitions
The supply of labour to the green industries in Sweden
Migration Processes in the Republic of Kazakhstan
Reaching the wild berry industry
Adaptability of nordic non-timber forest products to the European food market
‘A Strong Mind and a Solid Physique’
The slowness of language, the speed of capital
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Harvesting labour justice
Betwixt and between
The agrifood-migration nexus
Recruiting Immigrant Workers
Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest
The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration
Spatial shifts in migration governance
Changes in migration control during the neoliberal era
Migration, Work, and Citizenship in the New World Order
Migration, civil society and global governance
Divergent interests and ideas around property rights
Sustainability of Nordic non-timber forest product-related businesses – A case study on bilberry
Doing gender’ in the wild berry industry
Institutions, Power and Space
Migration Industries and the State
Pick-Your-Own Labor
Neoliberalizing Space
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Recruitment to Occupations with a Surplus of Workers
Emerging topologies of transnational employment
Temporary migration, precarious employment and unfree labour relations
From blueberry cakes to labor strikes
On waiting, work-time and imagined futures
Translocal mobility systems
Navigating the migration industry
After Neoliberalization
Workers and Workplaces in a Neoliberal Global Economy
Variegated neoliberalization
New directions in exploring the migration industries
Re-visiting the 'black box' of migration
Logistics of migrant labour
Opening the Black Box of Migration
Predatory Princes and Princely Peddlers
Reassembling Indonesian Migration
| Citations per year | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |