Migrant labour constitutes an important feature of the Swedish agri-food sector – often employed with sub-standard working and employment conditions. Combining legal analysis and data from semi-structured interviews this article analyses the socio-legal factors and structure of the labour market and its interplay with the national migration regime that make possible the resort to exploitative practices in the employment of migrant labour in the Swedish agri-food sector. Theoretically speaking the article approaches migrant labour using Mariana Valverde’s concept of the ‘chronotopes of law’ capturing the simultaneous and dynamic relationship between space and time in defining legal meaning. In short, the study of legal processes as the result of a space-time interaction.

移民劳工是瑞典农业食品部门的一个重要特征——通常在低于标准的工作和就业条件下工作。结合法律分析和半结构化访谈的数据，本文分析了劳动力市场的社会法律因素和结构及其与国家移民制度的相互作用，这使得瑞典农业中的移民劳工就业可能诉诸剥削做法- 食品部门。从理论上讲，这篇文章使用 Mariana Valverde 的“法律时空表”概念来处理移民劳工，该概念在定义法律含义时捕捉了空间和时间之间的同时和动态关系。简而言之，法律程序的研究是时空相互作用的结果。