Reigada Olaizola, Alicia2025-01-092025-01-092022-09-16Reigada Olaizola, A. (2022). A link in global agrifood chains Recruitment policies, work, and sexuality in the strawberry fields of Andalusia (Spain). Current Anthropology, 63 (5), 519-540. https://doi.org/10.1086/720278.0011-32041537-5382https://hdl.handle.net/11441/166307This article examines global agrifood chains from a perspective that links economic activity to sociocultural transformations in the social sphere—often categorized as private and independent of the economic domain. Specifically, the study examines the relations established between recruitment policies, work, and sexuality in the intensive cultivation of strawberries in Andalusia, Spain. Taking a feminist political economy and intersectional approach, the ethnographic analysis centers on sexuality in socio-labor spaces in the context of the policies to recruit quotas of women from their home countries on temporary contracts. The analysis starts by exploring the way that the changing recruitment criteria of the Spanish temporary farmworker program define the ideal woman worker and how sexuality is constructed in social representations and relations. The analysis then shows how the sexualization of temporary women workers from eastern Europe is constructed through comparisons of the various groups of workers (Polish, Romanian, Romani, Moroccan, and Andalusian). In the final section, the study examines the articulation of contradictory representations of sexuality and behavior with systems of control.application/pdf34 p.spaAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.1086/720278