Romániai vándormunkások és áttelepültek a kertészeti idénymunka piacán
Romanian migrant labourers and resettlement: the seasonal agricultural market

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on seasonal agricultural labour as part of transnational migration based on empiricalresearch. It presents the effects of Romanian labour market migration on creating networks for seasonallabourers’ mobility, on the transformation of the ethnic and social composition of the labour force, as wellas on the differentiation and weakening of networks. The survival of networks has stabilized since the 1990s.This can be traced back to the transformation of their selection mechanisms and the variety of ways employedto retain those workers that were capable of integrating into the work organisation. Producers experiencinglabour force shortages have no control over workers in unstable networks, thus the selection of valuableemployees continues. The number of migrant seasonal workers has declined since 2000, and the erosion ofnetworks is inevitable. However, Romanian day-labourers are still important actors in regions suffering fromlabour force shortage.

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