In this longread, Professor of Agrarian Studies Jun Borras looks at the relationship between the global food system and the historical and ongoing exploitation of migrant workers that facilitate it.
In 'Migrant farmworkers & farmers, intersectional & internationalist alliances', Borras argues that in today’s global food system, migrant farmworkers remain central yet exploited.
His article confronts global capitalism, migrant labour regimes and land–labour politics, highlighting the urgent need for alliances between migrants, peasants, farmers and food sovereignty movements worldwide.
Borras investigates the structural, institutional and political conditions that block, or enable, working class solidarity among migrants, farmers and farmworkers.
Identifying the need to build truly anti-systemic social movements, he looks into the challenges for sectoral social movements of farmers, pastoralists, fishers or Indigenous, as well as for workers’ unions in terms of connecting movements to go beyond being ‘merely agrarian’ or ‘merely labour’.
Read the full article - 'Migrant farmworkers & farmers, intersectional & internationalist alliances' | Transnational Institute, 26 March 2026.
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