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1 online resource (xvi, 281 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture |
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Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
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| Contents |
Introduction : contract labor migration in theory and practice -- Agricultural crisis, migration, and contract labor : Tlaxcala, Mexico, and Ontario, Canada -- The dual process of constructing Mexican contract workers -- "Tomorrow we're all going to the harvest" : case studies of contract labor migration -- Interrogating racialized global labor supply : Caribbean and Mexican workers in Canada's SAWP / Leigh Binford and Kerry Preibisch -- The seasonal agricultural worker program and Mexican development -- The political economy of contract labor in neoliberal North America : cheap labor and organized labor -- Globalization and temporary migrants : post-national citizens, realpolitik, and disposable labor power -- Appendix : the SAWP : saving the family farm or feeding corporate enterprise? |
| Summary |
From its inception in 1966, the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) has grown to employ approximately 20,000 workers annually, the majority from Mexico. The program has been hailed as a model that alleviates human rights concerns because, under contract, SAWP workers travel legally, receive health benefits, contribute to pensions, are represented by Canadian consular officials, and rate the program favorably. This book takes readers behind the ideology and examines the daily lives of SAWP workers from Tlaxcala, Mexico (one of the leading sending states), observing the great personal and family price paid in order to experience a temporary rise in a standard of living. The book also observes the disparities of a gutted Mexican countryside versus the flourishing agriculture in Canada, where farm labor demand remains high. Drawn from extensive surveys and nearly two hundred interviews, ethnographic work in Ontario (destination of over 77 percent of migrants in the author’s sample), and quantitative data, this is much more than a case study: it situates the Tlaxcala-Canada exchange within the broader issues of migration, economics, and cultural currents |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-262) and index |
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Agricultural laborers, Foreign -- Canada
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Foreign workers -- Government policy -- Canada
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Foreign workers, Mexican -- Canada
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Agricultural laborers, Foreign
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Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
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Foreign workers -- Government policy
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Foreign workers, Mexican
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Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
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Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
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Canada
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Mexico
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780292743816 |
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0292743815 |
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