Migrant farmworkers’ struggles for decent work and housing – Netherlands and US compared

An assembly organized by ISS and the Agroecology Network

'Migrant farmworkers’ struggles for decent work and housing – Netherlands and US compared' seeks to discuss and learn from the struggles that many migrant farmworkers face to access decent work and housing.

Date
Tuesday 8 Apr 2025, 18:00 - 20:00
Type
General
Spoken Language
English
Room
Atrium
Location
International Institute of Social Studies
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Contact Karin Astrid Siegmann (siegmann@iss.nl) & Stijn Kluck (stijn.kluck@wur.nl) for more information.

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Milk farmer carrying feed to cows
Migrant Justice

All around the world, migrant workers are faced with precarity and unstable circumstances. In the Netherlands, there has been a rising number of migrant farmworkers who are experiencing homelessness. Many others are living in unsafe and indecent housing conditions. Their conditions are being facilitated by a food system that functions at the expense of migrants' ‘cheap’ labour. 

The assembly 'Migrant farmworkers’ struggles for decent work and housing – Netherlands and US compared' seeks to discuss and learn from the struggles that many migrant farmworkers face to access decent work and housing. 

Organized by the International Institute of Social Studies in collaboration with the the recently initiated 'Migration and Wage Labour' working group of the Agroecology Network, the Assembly will include workers and activists from the Netherlands and from the US-based organization Migrant Justice

Migrant farmworkers' struggles for decent work and housing - poster

Representing dairy workers in the state of Vermont, they are visiting the Netherlands to bring their demand for Milk with Dignity to the doorstep of the Dutch multinational Ahold Delhaize. During Ahold’s Annual General Meeting of company shareholders, Migrant Justice will call on the corporation to take accountability for the human rights violations in the company’s dairy supply chain.

Putting words into action

The following day, 9 April, the organizers will put their words into action and demonstrate alongside Migrant Justice to demand that Ahold Delhaize take more accountability for the care of the people in their supply chain. 

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