Abstract

CURADO, Xavier García. The immigrant construction worker: as a subject both deserving and underserving his precarious condition. Etnográfica [online]. 2020, vol.24, n.1, pp.245-264. ISSN 0873-6561.  https://doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.8547.

In the last 20 years approximately, the Spanish construction sector has experienced an unprecedented up and down, reflected by the phenomena of the housing bubble (1997-2007) and the housing crisis (2007-2018). During the economic expansion times, the construction sector absorbed a large amount of labor, both autochthonous and migrant workers. When the bubble burst, a lot of employment was destroyed and many workers fell into a precarious situation. Because of the crisis, a competitive logic to get a job in the construction sector was imposed to the workers. This article is based on ethnographic work carried out in different everyday-life contexts of construction workers of Barcelona and its metropolitan area. Our goal is to analyze the content of some sociolaboral realities which, simultaneously, point out the immigrant worker as deserving and undeserving of his precariousness.

Keywords : worker; immigrant; construction sector; crisis; (un)deservingness.

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