Abstract

ENTRENA-DURAN, Francisco  and  JIMENEZ-DIAZ, José Francisco. Reactions and protests by farmers and immigrants in El Ejido: a Spanish town immersed in the globalization dynamics. Mundo agrar. [online]. 2016, vol.17, n.34, pp.00-00. ISSN 1515-5994.

El Ejido is a Southeastern Spanish town that has passed, from being small and devoted to subsistence agriculture at the beginning of 1960s, to have today more than 85.000 inhabitants and a very thriving economy of greenhouses fully inserted in the globalization dynamics. These dynamics have brought about contradictory effects and different reactions in the two key social actors in El Ejido; i.e., farmers and immigrants, among which there are deep socioeconomic disparities and labor exploitation relations. As a result, immigrants and farmers are living in two completely dissimilar social worlds and so they have opposite attitudes and perceptions on reality which, in turn, shapes their respective possibilities and types of reaction and/or protest.

Keywords : El Ejido; Spain; Greenhouses; Farmers; Immigrants; Popular protests; Globalization.

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