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Monica Șerban
Research Institute for Quality of Life (ICCV), Romanian Academy, 050711 Bucharest, Romania

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Monica Șerban is a sociologist, a senior researcher associated with the Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy. She earned her PhD in sociology (2009) with a thesis addressing Romanian migration dynamics in Spain. The work, published in 2011 under the title ”Dinamica migraţiei internaţionale: un exerciţiu asupra migraţiei româneşti în Spania (International migration dynamics: an exercise on Romanian migration to Spain) (Iaşi: Lumen), was awarded the Dimitrie Gusti prize of the Romanian Academy (2013) She has extensive experience with European projects, as researcher (FP7 EUCROSS; FP7 TEMPER; Horizon 2020 YMOBILITY) and evaluator. Her current research interests are clustering around migration policies from the perspective of the area of origin, return migration and re-migration. She is a member of the Board and of the Scientific Committee of RN35 - Sociology of Migration of the European Sociological Association (ESA).

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Published: 20 January 2021 in Sustainability
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Since the beginning of the 21st century, Romanian migrants have become one of the most significant national groups doing agricultural work in Spain, initially coming via a temporary migration program and later under several different modalities. However, despite their critical importance for the functioning of Europe’s largest agro-industry, the study of this long-term circular mobility is still underdeveloped in migration and agriculture literature. Thanks to extensive fieldwork carried out in the provinces of Huelva and Lleida in Spain and in the counties of Teleorman and Buzău in Romania, this paper has two main objectives: first, to identify some of the most common forms of mobility of these migrants; and second, to discuss whether this industrial agriculture, hugely dependent on migrant work, is socially sustainable. The case of Romanian migrants in Spanish agriculture will serve to show how a critical sector for the EU and for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations, operates on an unsustainable model based on precariousness and exploitation.

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Yoan Molinero-Gerbeau; Ana López-Sala; Monica Șerban. On the Social Sustainability of Industrial Agriculture Dependent on Migrant Workers. Romanian Workers in Spain’s Seasonal Agriculture. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1062 .

AMA Style

Yoan Molinero-Gerbeau, Ana López-Sala, Monica Șerban. On the Social Sustainability of Industrial Agriculture Dependent on Migrant Workers. Romanian Workers in Spain’s Seasonal Agriculture. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (3):1062.

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Yoan Molinero-Gerbeau; Ana López-Sala; Monica Șerban. 2021. "On the Social Sustainability of Industrial Agriculture Dependent on Migrant Workers. Romanian Workers in Spain’s Seasonal Agriculture." Sustainability 13, no. 3: 1062.