The Growth of American Enterprises in Brazil

Determinants of migration, fam

This section is all about the tea on migrant farm workers and their social and cultural transitions. It's important to keep it real and understand the complex and sometimes tough views and experiences of different migrant groups, ya feel? The section starts by flexing on the forces that cause migration and if those forces are linked to the equality of cultural clout. So, like, it's all about how much connection farm workers have with their peeps and their local communities. Can they turn their social clout into cultural clout? And if they can, how does that impact their cultural status and stuff?

OMG, like, most of the peeps in the study said that money is the main reason they bounce, but IDK if that actually affects how much cultural clout they have. Celina spilled the tea on her reasons for the migration: I just realized that there was like zero growth in the agriculture sector in Poland. SMH. OMG, when Poland joined the EU in 2004, I was like, "Yasss, the UK job market is gonna be lit!" I like, totally entered the UK in late 2008 and snagged an unskilled gig at this dope fresh herb grower in Scotland. I thought my edu and job experience in Poland and Scotland would like totally help me level up in my career, ya know? For Mareks from Latvia, money was like the main reason why he came to Scotland, ya know? Ausra spilled the tea: My life got shook by my friend and it didn't hit me until I realized they were dipping to the UK 'cause the bag was way fatter there than back home. One of the biggest vibes is that so many employers are just too flexin'. They be thinkin' migrant farm workers don't know squat 'bout their equal rights and equal opps. This is why they don't even care if workers are treated unfairly or go through mad abuse from their bosses. Yo, like, even though there's, like, a mad demand for skilled gigs, finding those gigs is, like, a total struggle compared to the basic ones. It's all 'cause they don't recognize the cultural capital of migrants, fam. Farm workers are still hella underrated, no cap, no matter how much cultural clout they got or flex from their home country. They be gettin' jobs but them jobs ain't well paid, ya know? Zoran thought direct discrimination was, like, totally blocking the fair appreciation of cultural capital.

Dalena was like:

Ayo, the government be straight up lacking control when it comes to the orgs responsible for recruitin' and placin' migrant workers. It's like a major roadblock to havin' equal respect for cultural capital, ya feel me? Ausra was like, "Yo, it's society's fault for creating all these barriers that mess with how we value cultural stuff." She thought her low-key job that pays surprisingly gucci would be a temporary vibe for her. She was hustlin' to secure a better gig while tryna balance her clout and deal with that low-key dead-end job. In 2011, she went to this lit course at a local College to level up her reading, writing, and communication skills in English 'cause she thought not being fluent might hold her back from getting a sick job. Since then, she's been lowkey struggling to secure a lit job, but it's been hella complicated. She totally called out society for not giving migrant's cultural capital the same respect as they do for the locals' cultural capital. SMH. OMG, like Zoran totally went through it! There are so many obstacles that, like, totally exist between different groups when it comes to valuing migrants' cultural capital. It's, like, not cool at all. Zoran's story lowkey shows that employers/farmers not recognizing the knowledge, qualifications, and skills of farm workers is a major roadblock to equality and giving cultural capital the respect it deserves. Migrant workers' mad skills in the agri/horti scene and their willingness to grind with long hours shows they're total beasts. Zoran's story lowkey shows how fewer and fewer locals are putting in the hustle in the labor-intensive subsectors of producing fresh fruits and veggies, while migrants be grinding in the fields and pack houses. OMG this story shows how farmers are like so reliant on migrant workers cuz it's, like, super hard for them to find local peeps. It's like, the tea on why migrants should be treated with equality, you know? It's like, ugh, this totally shows how employers are so bad at dealing with migrant farm workers and like, not appreciating and protecting their cultural vibes. The tea from interviews with policy makers suggests that equality is like, totally at the heart of the Scottish government, you know?

 An equality and diversity official was like:

The Scottish gov has totally slayed the major ineqs and pushed for equality of opps and outcomes in Scottish society. Yas queen! Yo, public authorities gotta flex with the public sector equality duty, ya know? They can't be out here discriminating against anyone, that's a big no-no. Private orgs and charities gotta follow the public sector equality duty when they do public stuff. Recognizing the importance of migrants' cultural cap can sometimes be lowkey useless when someone's potentials are straight up undermined. Yo, dissin' people's cultural capital, like their diverse values, norms, and ways of livin', can have a mad impact on social inclusion and straight up exclude certain groups from gettin' involved. totally vibin' in the community/social scene and gettin' used to a new culture (acculturation). This whole situation is like a never-ending cycle of being included or excluded, ya know? It's all about not recognizing someone's cultural coolness, and that leads to some people not getting the same opportunities, resources, and rights. And that's how we end up with inequality in cultural coolness. This study, like, totally gets that it's super important to go from being included to being excluded, ya know? It's all about how migrants go through the whole social and cultural transition thing.  Suh skills should totally enable them to be skilled AF job candidates to go on to employment later in their career, ya know?