SEASONAL WORKERS BEFORE THE COVID-19 ERA: ANALYSIS OF THE LEGISLATION WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF EASTERN EUROPE

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Published: Aug 12, 2020
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Seasonal Workers, Intermediation Job Agencies, Eastern Europe, V4 Countries, Visa Formalities

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Rossen Koroutchev
Group of Mediterranean studies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

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This paper analyzes the phenomenon of seasonal workers in Europe before the Covid-19 pandemic and discusses the legislation for intermediation job intermediation agencies in several East European countries such as Bulgaria, Romania, and Poland. Additionally, we discuss the typical patterns for seasonal migration in the European context. We also analyze the situation of seasonal workers in Scandinavia (the berry picking activity in Sweden), in Spain (the orange picking in the Mediterranean regions) as well as the Ukrainian seasonal workers in some of the Visegrad-4 countries (Poland, Czech Republic, and Slovakia). Finally, we briefly discuss some novel approaches which might be used as regulation mechanisms.


 

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Koroutchev, Rossen. 2020. “SEASONAL WORKERS BEFORE THE COVID-19 ERA: ANALYSIS OF THE LEGISLATION WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF EASTERN EUROPE”. Journal of Liberty and International Affairs 6 (1):100-111. https://e-jlia.com/index.php/jlia/article/view/177.
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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2020): Journal of Liberty and International Affairs
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Rossen Koroutchev, Group of Mediterranean studies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Rossen Kostadinov Koroutchev is a Master fellow of Geography (2008) and International Relations (2010) from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, where later in 2014 he defended his PhD thesis about the European Return and Cyclic Migration. He is currently a Research Associate Scientist at the Group of Mediterranean Studies at the same University and has been recently awarded by a visiting research position at the Institute of Geography of the Faculty of Science, the Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia. His research is focused on Migration, Borders and Development issues.