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Author:

Raeymaekers, Timothy, author.

Title:

The natural border : bounding migrant farmwork in the Black Mediterranean / Timothy Raeymaekers.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2024

Description:

vii, 227 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Agricultural laborers, Foreign--Italy, Southern--Economic conditions.
Agricultural laborers, Foreign--Italy, Southern--Social conditions.
Agricultural laborers, Foreign--Government policy--Italy, Southern.
Tomato industry--Social aspects--Italy, Southern.
Racism against Black people--Italy, Southern.
Italy, Southern--Political aspects.--Political aspects.
Italy, Southern--Emigration and immigration.
Africa, Sub-Saharan--Emigration and immigration.
Italy, Southern--Rural conditions.
Italy, Southern--Economic conditions.
Agricultural laborers, Foreign--Government policy.
Agricultural laborers, Foreign--social conditions.
Economic history.
Emigration and immigration.
Race relations--Political aspects.
Racism against Black people.
Rural conditions.
Southern Italy.
Sub-Saharan Africa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Commodity Frontiers -- Plantation Assemblages -- Territorializing Labor -- Impermanent Territories -- Citizen Recognition.

Summary:

"The Natural Border tells the recent history of Mediterranean rural capitalism from the perspective of marginalized Black African farmworkers. In the context of global supply chains and repressive border regimes, the book foregrounds the fundamental racial hierarchies upon which agrarian production and reproduction are based"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

150177364X
9781501773648

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1372278493

LCCN:

2023025144

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)