This research project will explore the socio-spatial interactions shaping the inclusion and exclusion of migrant workers’ labour concerns in mobilisations around energy decarbonisation in Spain.
Focusing on four case studies, MIPED will examine how the inclusion and exclusion of migrant workers’ labour concerns in mobilisations around energy decarbonisation is shaped by the sociospatial interactions of migrant workers with labour, environmental and climate activists in this context. Through a combination of different fields of research, a qualitative and innovative methodology, a consideration of social inequalities intersecting this research question together with ethical and environmental issues, MIPED will address three research objectives: mapping how migrant workers’ experiences of (changes in) their labour conditions in the context of energy decarbonisation; studying how these experiences are taken into consideration by activist organisations mobilising around energy decarbonisation; exploring the social relations and socio-spatial interactions between these organisations and migrant workers.
