International Immigration, Integration and Sustainability in Small Towns and Villages by Ricard Morén-Alegret & Dawid Wladyka

Author:Ricard Morén-Alegret & Dawid Wladyka
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781137586216
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Furthermore, attracting the so-called ‘manpower’ and guaranteeing that companies have enough workers is underlined as a challenge, especially in tough labour-intensive jobs—a fact that contrasts with what used to occur when international investors first arrived, after Portugal and Spain joined the EU in 1986 (Morén-Alegret et al. 2018a): Labour was cheap and plentiful, but that’s not the case anymore. One of the main problems today in Odemira, in all this area, in general in farming, is that young Portuguese people don’t want to work on farms. So we have to import labour. And that is getting very difficult because of regulation. On the one hand you have unemployment… but people don’t want to come and work in the fields or in the greenhouses. And at the moment we have labour coming from Eastern Europe, from Thailand… and some companies also have people from North Africa… At the moment, we have this mix of local and imported labour. However, having external labour from other countries brings other problems: housing, language, training… So we are trying to cope very well with this here. (PT-EC-49-NWE-male)

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