Labour relations and border regimes in a pandemic scenario. A comparative study of migrant labour in the EU agro-industrial sector KU Leuven
EU economies’ structural need for low-cost foreign labour is usually invisibilized by nationalistic and populist discourses on immigration. Similarly, border and migration studies tend to overlook states’ role in sustaining the demand of employers for low-cost migrant workers. However, the shortage of labour in the agro-industrial sector of western EU countries during recent border closures was calculated at around one million workers – ...