Extractivismo agrícola, frontera y fuerza de trabajo migrante: La expansión del monocultivo de piña en Costa Rica

Abstract

Since the 1980s, Costa Rica has been promoting intensive pineapple cultivation mainly in the northern border area with Nicaragua. This article seeks to study the relationship that exists between agricultural extractivism as a development model, global agrifood chains and border regions as “spaces of opportunity” due to their peripheral situation, the presence of natural resources, flexible and cheap labor force originating in this case from Nicaragua. We will demonstrate how this type of productive activity generates territories of border dispossession in which the relations of spatially anchored domination are materialized, such as the accumulation of land, bad working conditions, the exploitation of irregular migrant labor and environmental pollution.