Transnational mobility, agricultural work and gender: morroccan female workers in huelva´s agriculture

Abstract

Thousands of Moroccan female workers move each year to the intensive agricultural fields of the province of Huelva -South West Spain- for the strawberry planting and/or harvesting. Most of them are married women with children, according to these programs demands. They stay between three and eight months each year, with the compromise of returning to their countries when their contracts are finished. In this review I will introduce some results drawn from a research that focuses on these migrations, specifically on the interactions and links that occur between the different spaces covered by the seasonal workers. On the one hand, I will analyze the processes that hold these contracting methods. On the other hand I will also focus on the impact these contracting methods have on these women at both material and symbolic level, just as the strategies they develop in this framework.