On the Social Sustainability of Industrial Agriculture Dependent on Migrant Workers. Romanian Workers in Spain’s Seasonal Agriculture

Yoan Molinero-Gerbeau holds a PhD on International Relations and Political Science (2020) and is an associate researcher at the Institute of Economy, Geography and Demography (IEGD) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). During his career, he has worked as associate professor of Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and of Political Science at Carlos III University (UC3M) of Madrid. He has also worked at the Pontifical University of Comillas for the H2020 IMMERSE project and at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) for the FPVII TEMPER project. His main research interests are migrations, global agriculture and IR Structuralism. He is member of the Spanish Federation of Sociology (FES) and has been president of its Research Committee on “International Studies, Area Studies and Globalization” since 2020.

Ana López-Sala, Ph.D in Sociology (2001) and Tenured Research Fellow at Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Her main research areas include irregular migration, border control, migrant activisms, and vulnerable and seasonal immigrants. She is the author of Immigration and the Nation-State (Anthropos, Barcelona, 2005), Migration and Borders (Icaria, Barcelona, 2010), and recently edited (with D. Godenau) States of Exclusion: Irregular Immigration Control in Spain (Anthropos, Barcelona, 2017). She was a Rockefeller Fellow (in the Bellagio Program) and member of LINET (Independent Network of Labour Migration and Integration Experts, European Commission). Currently, she is researcher in charge of the R.A.M Project ("Migrant Activisms") (2020-2021) funded by the Spanish National Research Program. She has been president of the Sociology of Migration Research Committee (2008-2018) of the Spanish Federation of Sociology (FES) and she is currently member of the board of the Sociology of Migration Research Committee (2018-2022) of the International Sociological Association (ISA).

Monica Șerban is a sociologist, a senior researcher associated with the Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy. She earned her PhD in sociology (2009) with a thesis addressing Romanian migration dynamics in Spain. The work, published in 2011 under the title ”Dinamica migraţiei internaţionale: un exerciţiu asupra migraţiei româneşti în Spania (International migration dynamics: an exercise on Romanian migration to Spain) (Iaşi: Lumen), was awarded the Dimitrie Gusti prize of the Romanian Academy (2013) She has extensive experience with European projects, as researcher (FP7 EUCROSS; FP7 TEMPER; Horizon 2020 YMOBILITY) and evaluator. Her current research interests are clustering around migration policies from the perspective of the area of origin, return migration and re-migration. She is a member of the Board and of the Scientific Committee of RN35 - Sociology of Migration of the European Sociological Association (ESA).