On the Socioeconomic Status and the Experiences of Female Seasonal Agricultural Workers in Contemporary Serbia. Are There Elements of Structural Violence?
On the Socioeconomic Status and the Experiences of Female Seasonal Agricultural Workers in Contemporary Serbia. Are There Elements of Structural Violence?

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the socioeconomic status and experiences of women employed as seasonal agricultural workers, indicating the elements of structural and other forms of violence to which they are exposed. As a form of employment, seasonal work has been legally defined in Serbia only since 2018, and it remains a partially regulated sector marked by different forms of social exclusion. Feminist (anthropological) literature dealing with the gender aspect of seasonal agricultural work in different parts of the world has pointed to the serious problem of inequality and social marginalisation. The analysis of social, economic, cultural, legal and other structures involved in the organisation and control of these job positions, as well as the work process itself, has helped identify the ways in which the unequal status of female seasonal workers continues to be (re)produced and sustained, which leads to the question of structural violence against this category of women.

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