nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20211222-000001-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 211221s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20211222-000001-0 doi eng 342 23 Bogoeski, Vladimir Author aut Essential, and yet on the Margins Seasonal migrant workers in the Coalition Agreement of the new German government Bogoeski, Vladimir Verfassungsblog 2021-12-21 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 7 December 2021, the coalition parties of the recently inaugurated German government signed the Coalition Agreement. While the Agreement’s proposals regarding work and industrial relations have already been praised and criticised by unions and researchers, this post will address the Government’s plans with respect to seasonal (migrant) workers in agriculture, a topic that experienced increased public exposure since the onset of the pandemic. I argue that if the new Government intends to take the ‘essential worker’ label of seasonal migrant farmworkers seriously, it needs to go beyond the relatively modest ambitions expressed in the Agreement. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 COVID 19 migrant workers Seasonal Workers Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/essential-and-yet-on-the-margins/ raw object