Spain's berry industry relies on the agricultural labour of both local and seasonal migrant workers. A significant part of this migrant workforce comprises Moroccan mothers who leave their children with relatives in order to perform this wage labour. The bilateral recruitment regime favours the employment of Moroccan women with children for this labour to ensure that workers return home at the end of the harvesting season. Drawing on multi-site ethnographic research in Spain and Morocco, this study revealed the effects of this bilateral labour regime on the intimate lives of migrant workers. We argue that the geopolitical prescriptions of this labour migration regime, along with the working and living conditions of migrant workers in Huelva, result in experiences of intimate liminality. We examined these experiences by exploring: (1) how the role of female workers as mothers becomes liminal as transnational labour agreements marginalise and outsource care obligations, (2) how governmental neglect of migrant workers' occupational health exposes them to reproductive health risks and (3) how this neglect places them in a liminal space in terms of access to healthcare, and (4) how, despite their liminality, migrant workers contest precarious conditions through everyday solidarity practices. We advance a feminist approach to liminality, emphasising the importance of an embodied, intersectional, and multiscalar perspective.

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西班牙浆果产业的严格限制

西班牙的浆果产业依赖于当地和季节性移民工人的农业劳动力。这些移民劳动力中很大一部分是摩洛哥母亲，她们将孩子交给亲戚照顾，以便从事这种雇佣劳动。双边招聘制度有利于雇用带孩子的摩洛哥妇女从事这项劳动，以确保工人在收获季节结束时返回家园。这项研究借鉴了西班牙和摩洛哥的多地点人种学研究，揭示了这种双边劳动制度对移徙工人亲密生活的影响。我们认为，这种劳务移民制度的地缘政治规定，以及韦尔瓦移民工人的工作和生活条件，导致了亲密的阈限体验。我们通过探讨以下问题来检验这些经验：（1）随着跨国劳动协议边缘化和外包护理义务，女工作为母亲的角色如何变得有限，（2）政府对移徙工人职业健康的忽视如何使她们面临生殖健康风险以及（ 3）这种忽视如何使他们在获得医疗保健方面处于有限的空间，以及（4）尽管有有限的空间，移民工人如何通过日常的团结实践来对抗不稳定的条件。我们提出一种女性主义的阈限方法，强调具体、交叉和多尺度视角的重要性。