'Migrant farmworkers’ struggles for decent work and housing – Netherlands and US compared' seeks to discuss and learn from the struggles that many migrant farmworkers face to access decent work and housing.
- Date
- Tuesday 8 Apr 2025, 18:00 - 20:00
- Type
- General
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Atrium
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
- Ticket information
Contact Karin Astrid Siegmann (siegmann@iss.nl) & Stijn Kluck (stijn.kluck@wur.nl) for more information.
All around the world, migrant workers are faced with precarity and unstable circumstances. In the Netherlands, there has been a rising number of migrant farmworkers who are experiencing homelessness. Many others are living in unsafe and indecent housing conditions. Their conditions are being facilitated by a food system that functions at the expense of migrants' ‘cheap’ labour.
The assembly 'Migrant farmworkers’ struggles for decent work and housing – Netherlands and US compared' seeks to discuss and learn from the struggles that many migrant farmworkers face to access decent work and housing.
Organized by the International Institute of Social Studies in collaboration with the recently initiated 'Migration and Wage Labour' working group of the Agroecology Network, the Assembly will include workers and activists from the Netherlands and from the US-based organization Migrant Justice.
Representing dairy workers in the state of Vermont, they are visiting the Netherlands to bring their demand for Milk with Dignity to the doorstep of the Dutch multinational Ahold Delhaize. During Ahold’s Annual General Meeting of company shareholders, Migrant Justice will call on the corporation to take accountability for the human rights violations in the company’s dairy supply chain.
Programme
- 17:30 Food first! Enjoy a simple dinner 😊
- 18:00 Welcome & objectives of the meeting
- 18:15 Playful mutual introductions
- 18:25 Panel 1: Migrant farmworkers’ issues & solutions
- 18:35 Group discussions around panelists’ pitches
- 18:55 Plenary harvest from groups
- 19:05 Panel 2: From issues to action & coalition building exercise
- 19:55 Conclusion
- 20:00 Opening exhibition Picking Fruit, Sowing Stories
- 20:10 Informal get-together & drinks
Putting words into action
You are welcome to also join the Migrant Justice representatives for other actions. Here is an overview:
- 9 April 2025, 12:30 hrs CEST, Zaantheater, Zaandam: Migrant Justice representatives speak during protest of Milieudefensie
- 10 April 2025, 13 hrs CEST, Provincialeweg 11, Zaandam: Migrant Justice representatives protest at Ahold Delhaize headquarters
- Related content
- Related links
- How migrant justice is fighting for improved labour conditions in the US dairy industry
