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dc.contributor.advisorHigh, Mette M.
dc.contributor.advisorRapport, Nigel
dc.contributor.authorLovelady, Astrid Stampe
dc.coverage.spatialxi, 241 p.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-14T15:21:46Z
dc.date.available2020-07-14T15:21:46Z
dc.date.issued2020-07-27
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/20249
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the everyday implications of labour migration within the European Union. Every year many people from Romania travel to work in Danish agriculture to gain a better livelihood. Due to issues of corruption and the risk of poverty, it has become increasingly difficult to make a living in Romania. In Danish agriculture, Romanians now constitute the largest group of migrant farm labourers. This thesis therefore takes up contemporary debates on European transformations and the implications of persisting socio-economic inequalities between EU countries. To understand the social and individual implications of this migration, this thesis explores how Romanian farm labourers, along with their friends and families, experience and make sense of their lives and work in the Danish countryside. The analyses are based on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork, which took place across a range of contexts that the farm labourers were part of in Denmark. By analysing processes of becoming, the thesis analyses the different identities that the farm labourers construct for themselves across these contexts to make sense of their migratory movements. Through these different identities, the thesis argues, the farm labourers were continuously reassessing their social and individual lives within the European political economy and alongside their migratory experiences in the Danish countryside. As such, the thesis shows how the farm labourers’ situational becomings shape their experiences of working and living in Denmark, and how the farm labourers act according to their shifting interpretations of their past, present and future lives. On the basis of these analyses, this thesis questions whether and in what ways the Romanian farm labourers' becomings are distinct as a result of their migratory experiences. The thesis argues that migrants’ ways of perceiving their becomings as part of their life transitions are influenced by the restraints and opportunities they encounter as migrants. In such a way, analysing migrants’ becomings allows for an exploration of the intersection between their particular ways of becoming and universal ways of becoming as human beings amidst contemporary European transformations.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.subjectEuropean Unionen_US
dc.subjectEuropean socio-economic transformations and inequalitiesen_US
dc.subjectFree movementen_US
dc.subjectLabour migrationen_US
dc.subjectAgricultureen_US
dc.subjectIdentityen_US
dc.subjectSituational becomingsen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectReligionen_US
dc.subjectRomaniaen_US
dc.subjectDenmarken_US
dc.subject.lccDR142.R8L7
dc.subject.lcshRomanians--Denmarken
dc.subject.lcshForeign workers--Denmarken
dc.subject.lcshAgricultural laborers--Denmarken
dc.subject.lcshRomanians--Cultural assimilation--Denmarken
dc.subject.lcshBelonging (Social psychology)--Denmarken
dc.subject.lcshEquality--Europe--Case studiesen
dc.subject.lcshFreedom of movement--European Union countriesen
dc.subject.lcshLabor mobility--European Union countriesen
dc.subject.lcshRomania--Emigration and immigrationen
dc.subject.lcshDenmark--Emigration and immigrationen
dc.titleWandering becomings : free movement, farm labouring and desires of becoming amongst Romanian migrants in the Danish countrysideen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.rights.embargodate2025-02-18
dc.rights.embargoreasonThesis restricted in accordance with University regulations. Print and electronic copy restricted until 18th February 2025en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.17630/10023-20249


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