Mobility and immobility in times of Covid-19 : Seasonal agricultural field laborers in Mendoza during pandemic lockdown

This paper focuses on (in)mobilizations of temporary agricultural field laborers declared as essential workers during the imposition of the nationwide lockdown due to Covid-19 in Mendoza, Argentina, who yearly arrive to the state to harvest the seasonal crops. Under the mobility paradigm, it investi...

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Autor principal: Veisaga, Maria-Luisa
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Instituto Multidisciplinario de Estudios Sociales Contemporáneos 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs3/index.php/estudiosocontemp/article/view/4247
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Sumario:This paper focuses on (in)mobilizations of temporary agricultural field laborers declared as essential workers during the imposition of the nationwide lockdown due to Covid-19 in Mendoza, Argentina, who yearly arrive to the state to harvest the seasonal crops. Under the mobility paradigm, it investigates situations of mobility, in-mobility, control and borders. It finds out that during the pandemic, in-mobility, and border restrictions have been exacerbated. Happened not only by the intensification of control but also because the Covid-19 situation come about in a tremendously unequal space devastating even further the precarious lives that are in a human mobility condition.