Seasonal Agricultural Labour of Girls in Rural Turkey

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2015-08-21

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Hoşgör, Hatice Ayşe

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Seasonal agricultural migration in Turkey is a prominent historical, economic and sociological issue. Although this type of labor exploitation has been practiced for centuries by various groups, literature indicates that recent seasonal agricultural laborers are from urban and rural poor areas of Southeast and Eastern regions. Most of them belong to ethnic groups of Kurds, Arabs, and Dom/Rom Gypsies. Members of laboring households temporarily migrate to work in the fields for periods between two to ten months. Hence, seasonal agricultural labor is connected to poverty and lack of other means of production. Recent studies also highlight the fact that laborers migrate as households, with men and women, participating collectively in the process. Another significant dimension of seasonal agricultural migration is child labor. Boys and girls of seasonal farm laborers work alongside their families. Studies have shown that these children suffer from malnutrition and even famine, as well as living in improper housing without access to potable water, sewage for waste, and suffering from a lack of even basic health and education services. Like their parents, these children are socially ostracized and discriminated against in the regions where they work. However, increase in gender-based analyses of child poverty has also shown that boys and girls experience poverty differently. Accordingly, this article focuses on seasonal labor of girls. How do girls experience seasonal agricultural work? What are the problems specific to girls rather than boys? How do they involve in productive and reproductive work? The article is based on a qualitative research conducted in three cities, Ordu, Yozgat and Şanlıurfa and a comprehensive desktop review.

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http://www.esrs2015.eu/sites/www.esrs2015.eu/files/ESRS%202015%20on-line%20proceedings.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/84871

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The XXVI European Society for Rural Sociology Congress: Places of Possibility? Rural Societies in a Neoliberal World (18 - 21 Ağustos 2015)

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H. A. Hoşgör, “Seasonal Agricultural Labour of Girls in Rural Turkey,” Aberdeen, Scotland, 2015, p. 61, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: http://www.esrs2015.eu/sites/www.esrs2015.eu/files/ESRS%202015%20on-line%20proceedings.pdf.