Indigenous migrant labourers and land
Towards an exploration of indigenous’ socio-cultural reproduction in the Colombian Altillanura
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6414337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lorenza Arango (0009-0003-5285-4868, Erasmus University Rotterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 2375-2395 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Agriculture and Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0889-048X • E-ISSN: 1572-8366 |
| Publisher | Springer Nature (Netherlands) (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10460-024-10693-x |
| PMID | 41306688 |
| OpenAlex | W4407786530 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 78 |
Production and social reproduction are increasingly characterized by its multisitedeness given the rising number of working people migrating for wage work. The ways in which these spheres interplay, both at migrants’ places of origin and at the destination sites of work, differ greatly across societies. Based on primary research in Puerto Gaitán, Colombia—a small town in a largely rural area serving as an agribusiness and oil exploitation hub—I suggest that the complex expressions of the production-social reproduction nexus are intimately connected with the ‘politics of land’. While the town of Puerto Gaitán, as a place of migration, provides for most everyday ‘material’ elements to sustain life (food, shelter, clothing, care, schools, hospitals), other crucial aspects of social reproduction are still heavily performed at indigenous’ rural collective lands ( resguardos) . Resguardo lands are a key socio-cultural basis of Indigenous peoples’ reproduction, despite serious limitations partly due to their isolation, to restrictions on the free circulation by large landowners, and to historical underlying drivers founded in dispossession. One important analytical and political implication is that migrant workers’ access to land should respond to a broader conceptualization of social reproduction—i.e., in which non-material aspects are equally considered
Biology · Development economics · Development studies · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Political science · Reproduction · Social reproduction · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Traditional knowledge · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Anthropology · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |