Migrant Jobs and Human Cultures: Transformation through a New Formation

This paper examines the two faces of the topic of migrant work: jobs that migrate, that is, the delocalisation of work, meant in the form of production activities that are moved from one country to another, and migrants’ jobs, namely the range of activities performed by those people who move from economically poorer areas to ones which are richer or offer greater op-­‐‑ portunities. These two phenomena, on the increase in the present day, are dealt with in various disciplines, first of all economics, sociology and law. Pedagogy has only approached the issue of work recently and as yet in ref-­‐‑ erence to just a few of its aspects. In this paper, I shall take an intercultural pedagogical viewpoint, starting from a twofold question: What conception of man is at the basis of the world economic-­‐‑productive system and therefore of work today? What work culture should distinguish production activities, includ-­‐‑ ing those carried out by migrants?