El campo neoliberal y su crisis. Agricultura, sociedad local y migraciones en la Europa del Sur

The paper is based on a comparative review of a part of social researches about the social and neoliberal transformation in the farming of Spain, Italy and Greece since the 1980s and on an analysis of statistical data. The paper analyzes the role of agriculture in the organization of the observed areas, highlighting its processes of internationalization and the management of the living labor, that mainly is migrant labor. It draws attention to transformations produced by migrant presence in interaction with the local societies, recognizing that local populations have developed a functional attitude towards immigrants, favoring a social and political regulation that put first rights and interests of native inhabitants. The paper finally signals the crisis of this way of regulation, that is manifested by the conflictual relationship between the migrant workers and local farms and populations in some areas.