Why American Companies Are Eyeing Brazil

 Lina spilled the tea:

Just one respondent was like, "Yo, everyone in society is treated equally and there's no need to recognize and protect the cultural capital of migrant workers." OMG, Alina's story discussed above is, like, the absolute GOAT example of that belief. Yet, like, there's legit evidence from my interviews with migrant farm workers and from policy interviews with NFU and CAB officials that there are still mad barriers to equal valuations of cultural capital, ya know? Several schemes, orgs, and farmers and growers have, like, totally been getting called out lately for how they've been treating migrant workers and stuff. It's been a big deal, ya know? OMG it's like super important to say that the employment agencies and work permits systems have, like, so many schemes.

There's the Worker Registration Scheme, Seasonal Agricultural Workers' Scheme (SAWS), the Sectors Based Scheme (SBS), and the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP). They're all controlled by the UK Border Agency and they, like, provide a bunch of workers for the agriculture / horticulture industry. It's pretty lit, tbh. Both SAWS and SBS schemes are like totally closed26 while Worker Registration Scheme is like not a thing anymore as of April 2011. SAWS ops have been done by mad contractors/orgs hired by the Work Permits (UK). Multiple operators are like those orgs that be doin' stuff for real. SAWS was like totally closed in January 2014, fam. The UK gov wants unemployed UK peeps to fill the job gaps, ya know? SBS was like totally dead by the end of 2013, fam of farmers and growers only whereas solo operators are farmers and growers who do their thing solo. Yo, like, mad orgs, including CAB, be straight up calling on the UK Gov to tweak the structure and functions of these agencies and schemes, ya feel? They've also asked the gov to peep and update employment laws to make sure migrant workers aren't getting played by their bosses (Migrant InfoSource, 2008; Spencer, et al., 2007).

I asked my peeps if they've come across any obstacles to fair vibes of cultural clout. The majority of peeps said they've faced hella obstacles.

Two peeps ghosted on answering this Q. The barriers include language issue, farmers having way too much power, government having no control, society being unfair, workers' knowledge and skills not being recognized, straight up discrimination, and workplace drama. These were like, hella common themes/sub-themes that came up in interviews, ya know? Celina spilled the tea to me: One of the barriers is, like, employers thinking they know everything about their migrant farm workers, but they really don't. Most employers be thinkin' migrant farm workers as lowkey unskilled with language and other obstacles. Evidence from policy interviews suggests that there are like, so many obstacles to like, equal valuations of cultural capital because authorities are all like, "Yo, you gotta be able to speak good and stuff," but migrant farm workers are like, "Nah, we don't have that skill." The tea also spills that migrant workers gotta flex their farming skills, ya know? OMG, like, local / native workers totally slay with their English skills and mad knowledge of local farming and the market. That's how they score those skilled and glam jobs, ya know? Yet even with mad English language skills, Jakub argued that there were hella barriers that prevented the recognition and protection of migrants’ cultural capital. He was like: I was gonna spill the tea on packaging to my supervisor. I flexed on how to pack herbs and label them like a boss. I got clowned for flexing my mad practical knowledge/expertise. OMG, it was like a total shocker and that's when I started realizing how important cultural capital equality is in the workplace. My farmer be flexin' in dem Farming Awards every year, ya know? Yo, as an event organizer and exhibition stall designer, I'm tryna help out my employer and flex my skills and experience in setting up and tearing down stalls. OMG, after the show, my boss straight up told me that my ideas, skills, and experience couldn't keep peeps at the booth. Like, seriously? I was so shook and embarrassed when he totally clowned on my cultural clout.

The ten policy experts don't seem to care about recognizing cultural capital cuz they don't see a problem with getting jobs that match migrants' cultural capital.

An equality and diversity official was like: If the qualifications of migrant workers are on fleek with what the Scottish labour market is looking for, then there's no cap for them to secure jobs. The tea from interviews with migrant workers and also from policy interviews suggest that migrant farm workers' experiences at work and beyond the workplace have a major impact on equality. I asked my peeps why they believed migrant farm workers gotta be treated with equality and their cultural clout gotta be recognized and protected. The majority of peeps said that migrant workers gotta be treated with equality and their cultural swag gotta be valued equally to avoid more demands for equality (figure 4.6). Anastazja was like, "Yo, there are mad barriers that's why migrants' cultural capital ain't gettin' recognized, ya feel me?" She was like: Treating everyone with equality no matter their vibe, fam, culture, religion, and stuff is hella important to show that the UK is a lit society with equal opportunity for all. Daniel was like, all about equality and cultural capital, you know? He was like, totally doubting if equality of cultural capital even exists, you know? He spilled the tea about his whack experience with cultural capital equality, fam: