Alessandra Corrado is assistant professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Calabria, and founding member of the Study Center for Rural Development, Italy.Carlos de Castro is lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Spain.Domenico Perrotta is tenured researcher and lecturer in the Sociology of Cultural Processes at the University of Bergamo, Italy.

• Table of ContentsChapter 1 – Introduction. Cheap food, cheap labour, high profits. Agriculture and mobility in the Mediterranean. Alessandra Corrado, Carlos de Castro, Domenico PerrottaPart I – Migrant Labour and "Quality" Food ProductsChapter 2 – The (sacred) cow business. Narratives and practices of the "ethnic niche" of Indian Punjab milkers in the Po Valley, Vanessa AzzeruoliChapter 3 - Wine heritage and the ethnicization of labour. Arab workers in the Bordeaux vineyards, Chantal Crenn Chapter 4 - Processing tomatoes in the era of the retailing revolution. Mechanization and migrant labour in northern and southern Italy, Domenico PerrottaPart II – Social (un)sustainability of intensive agriculture: migrant labour in supply chains "under pressure" in Southern EuropeChapter 5 - Producing and mobilizing vulnerable workers. The agribusiness of the Region of Murcia (Spain), Elena Gadea, Andrés Pedreño, Carlos de CastroChapter 6 - Family farms, migrant labourers and regional imbalance in global agri-food systems. On the social (un)sustainability of intensive strawberry production in Huelva (Spain), Alicia Reigada Chapter 7 - The citrus fruit crisis. Value chains and "just in time" migrants in Rosarno (Italy) and Valencia (Spain). Anna Mary Garrapa Chapter 8 – Migrant labour and intensive agricultural production in Greece. The case of the Manolada strawberry industry, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Loukia - Maria Fratsea Part III – Restructuring of Agri-food Systems in Maghreb and Middle-EastChapter 9 – Contested red gold: The tomato in the context of European-Moroccan relations, Sarah Ruth Sippel Chapter 10 – Refugees in the agricultural sector: some notes on Syrians in Hatay province, Turkey, Selma Akay Erturk Part IV – Restructuring of agricultural labour markets in Southern Europe and MaghrebChapter 11 - Persistent unfree labour in French intensive agriculture: A historical overview of the "OFII" temporary farmworkers program, Frédéric Décosse Chapter 12 - "They know that you'll leave, like a dog moving onto the next bin". Undocumented male and seasonal contracted female workers in agricultural labour market of Huelva, Spain. Emmanuelle HellioChapter 13 – The land of informal intermediation. The social regulation of migrant agricultural labour in the Piana del Sele, Italy, Gennaro Avallone Chapter 14 – From the Al-Maghrib to the Al-Gharb: An anatomy of the recruitment and labour incorporation of Moroccan agricultural workers in the Algarve, Southern Portugal, Dora Sampaio, Rui Carvalho Chapter 15 – Agricultural modernization, internal migration and the formation of a wage labour market in the Souss region, Morocco. Mohamed Bouchelkha, Part V – Conflicts and resistancesChapter 16 – Rural and farmers’ protest movements in Tunisia and Egypt in the era of Arab revolts, Alia Gana Chapter 17 - Unionism of migrant farm workers. The Sindicato Obreros del Campo (SOC) in Andalusia, Spain, Francesco Saverio Caruso Chapter 18 - Entering the "plastic factories". Conflicts and competition in Sicilian greenhouses and packinghouses, Valeria Piro, Giuliana Sanò ConclusionChapter 19 – Agrarian change and migrations in the Mediterranean from a food regime perspective. Alessandra Corrado

"The book is a sightseeing inside the backyard of global food chains. It is a joint, fresh and well conducted research, plenty of field-work, made by scholars from both seaside of Mediterranean region to display the organization of global labour markets. A key book showing the power of sociology to understand the globalization processes and the role of mobility in contemporary society". Luis Camarero, Professor of Rural Sociology, UNED (Spain)