In the global context, the debate on insecurity in the labor market remains fierce. In principle, insecure work has several identical meanings. In the literature, concepts such as precarious or precarious work, insecure employment, or “poor” work are often found. One of the most vulnerable groups in terms of precarious work is migrants. Individuals transfer their work experience and knowledge to the destination country to which they immigrate, but challenges arise as if unforeseen. Language barriers, issues concerning wages, social guarantees, and job volatility are part of the daily routine of immigrants, and insecurity itself is understood as “uncertainty and instability.” This article enters a discussion about the structural restrictions that lead to the formation of precariat itself. The duality of the labour market, which was created by structural changes or pieces of legislation, demonstrates that being a migrant itself brings instability in different dimensions. The article analyses aspects of precarious work in integrating foreigners into the labour market of Lithuania. The first part provides a theoretical justification for this precarious work, followed by an overview of the theoretical aspects of the integration of foreigners. When analysing legal and statistical data, Lithuania’s labor market realities and immigrant trends are described. According to the structuring theory, the importance of legal status in the integration process is reviewed. The results of the empirical study are revealed in the last part of the article by formulating the conclusions.

In this article, I study small.scalegrowers of blonde tobacco varieties of the state of Nayarit, Mexico, who had contract farming arrangements with the state owned company Tabamex (1972)(1973)(1974)(1975)(1976)(1977)(1978)(1979)(1980)(1981)(1982)(1983)(1984)(1985)(1986)(1987)(1988)(1989)(1990).I refer to them as "prosperous small tobacco growers" since they constitued one of the subalternal social groups that benefited the most from the Mexican Agrarian Reform.I want to set this research apart from the ones carried out on tobacco growers in Nayarit, which have almost exclusively understood this group as agricultural producers and only consider the high levels of wage labour as secondary and even anectdotal.I argue that it is important to consider their patronal carcter as employers of temporary farm workers.

En los estudios sobre ritualidad y temporalidades mayas pasadas y presentes, persiste el análisis desde perspectivas disciplinares. En los últimos años, en consonancia con los movimientos de reivindicación cultural maya en Guatemala, han surgido una serie de demandas y propuestas para realizar co-investigaciones y estudios en los que la documentación, sistematización y análisis de los conocimientos actuales, los vestigios arqueológicos y los documentos y datos históricos, tomen en cuenta los esfuerzos de revitalización y registro que han realizado especialistas rituales y calendáricos locales, en un intercambio que permita poner en diálogo conocimientos académicos occidentales y conocimientos tradicionales. Desde una perspectiva etnoarqueológica, proponemos la reflexión metodológica para analizar los calendarios mayas contemporáneos desde una perspectiva decolonial que abone a la construcción de una historia propia.