Sökning: "Thai berry pickers"

Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade orden Thai berry pickers.

  1. 1. Along the paths of berry pickers : ascertaining the roles and positions of seasonal migrant berry pickers in Sweden through Swedish media

    Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Författare :Anudini Wijayarathna; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Swedish wild-berry industry; seasonal migrant berry pickers; Thai berry pickers; free tourist pickers; roles; socio-economic positions; labour conditions;

    Sammanfattning : Sweden is one of the northern European countries that receive seasonal migrant labour annually from Thai and free/tourist pickers for wild-berry picking in rural northern forests and lands of Sweden. Both Thai and free/tourist pickers are subjected to different irregularities and unfair labour conditions within the Swedish wild-berries industry. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Fläckiga arbetsförhållanden och fläckfria bär : En undersökning av cirkulär arbetsmigration inom bärindustrin 1980–2022

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Författare :Simon Siirtola; [2022]
    Nyckelord :commercial berry picking; contemporary history; oral history; precarious work; push and pull theory; social history; world-systems theory.; kommersiell bärplockning; muntlig historia; prekärt arbete; push-pull-teori; samtidshistoria; socialhistoria; världssystemteori;

    Sammanfattning : The berry industry is one of many migration corridors where migrant workers work under precarious forms of employment. The essay’s purpose is to examine different perspectives on the living and working conditions in the Swedish berry picking industry. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Thai local brokers in the Swedish berry industry : Roles and positions across time and space

    Master-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för geografi

    Författare :Peter van Eerbeek; [2019]
    Nyckelord :migration; labour; broker; precarity; intermediaries; berry; industry; Thailand; Sweden; precarity; mobility; seasonal work; debt;

    Sammanfattning : Over the last decade, each year 2500 - 6000 Thai go to Sweden to work as berry pickers during the berry season via a regulated system of temporary work permits. Bangkok-based staffing agencies rely on the networks of local brokers to recruit workers in Thailand’s more peripheral northeastern Isan region, as part of the larger migration industry in Thailand. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Thai migration flows to Sweden

    Master-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Kulturgeografi

    Författare :Yang Chen; [2016]
    Nyckelord :Thai migration; Thai migrants; marriage migration; berry picking; informal berry pickers;

    Sammanfattning : Along with the increasing economic and trade links, cultural exchange and tourism activities between the two countries, migration from Thailand to Sweden has been rapidly growing over the last decade (Webster & Haandrikman, 2014). There are manifold reasons that contribute to the migration to Sweden by many Thais, the most common and significant ones are marriage migration and berry picking (labour migration) (Hedberg, 2015). LÄS MER

  7. 5. Är tvångsarbete kriminaliserat? En undersökning av arbetskraftsexploatering utifrån svensk straffrätt

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Författare :Otto Svanberg Ohlsson; [2012]
    Nyckelord :straffrätt; tvångsarbete; arbetskraftsexploatering; människohandel; trafficking; gästarbetare; säsongsarbetare; papperslösa; Law and Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : I medierna förekommer ofta beskrivningar av utländska arbetstagare som blir utnyttjade av sina arbetsgivare på ett graverande sätt. Exempel på detta har varit de thailändska bärplockarna i Norrland och den kinesiska kock i Malmö som tvingades arbeta fram till att han kollapsade. LÄS MER