Migrant’s working conditions in agriculture and reproductive work in Greece

Migrants, men and women, in Greece have played an essential role in producing agricultural goods. However, many migrants are involved in precarious work on the farm, and women have to shoulder additional burden of household chores. The primary objective of this re-search is to explore the experiences and perspectives of female migrant workers doing the same jobs as their husbands in the agricultural sector in Greece as regard precarity and how they are combining the work done on farm with that of the household. Data collection for this study was carried out in the rural farming communities in Arcadia and Messenia located in the Peloponnese region in Greece through semi-structured interviews for 10 migrant workers. Reproductive work shaped by the precarious work, is analyzed by using the theory of Social Reproduction, while the precarious working conditions was analyzed from the lens of theory of Precarity. The findings show that women perceived precarious work differently than men, and were more willing to propose changes of the working process and conditions, while men were more demanding in terms of citizenship provision, after many years of work in the sector. While we were seeking to address the gendered differences of working conditions in the sample, and compare them, we saw that both men and women are experiencing precarious working conditions, with the different dimensions of precarity such as: status precarity, labour precarity, workplace precarity, life precarity to be experienced differently by men and women. However, those with extended family members living with them and those with older children spent fewer hours doing household chores as they got support from them. The same thing cannot be said of those with younger children living without extended family.