AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES, no. , pp.1-17, 2025 (SSCI)
Migrant seasonal agricultural workers around the world constitute the backbone of labor-intensive agriculture while fac-ing the most grim consequences of societal, economic and environmental changes from slow and rapid on-set hazards.Here we examine the impact of flash floods and the recent earthquake (February 2023) on seasonal agricultural migrantworkers in Türkiye. Adopting the slow and silent violence approaches (Nixon, 2011; Watts, 2013), we explore the struc-tural inequalities present before the disasters and analyse the intersecting vulnerabilities shaped by environmental, socio-economic, and political factors during and after these events. We argue that the relatively invisible slow violence andmore visible forms of violence overlap in the case of seasonal agricultural workers and migration status of the workersstrongly influence their im/mobilization in disaster-affected areas. Immobilization in rural ghettos has facilitated the recov-ery of land and agricultural production as well as social reproduction in rural communities. This observation necessitatesrethinking the role of worker im/mobility not only as a factor in production and social reproduction but also as a centralcomponent in disaster recovery. Therefore, we suggest a time-space nexus shaped by the analytical tools of violence andmobility to contribute to the literature on disasters and critical agrarian studies.