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Living at Work and Intra-worker Sociality Among Migrant Farm Workers in Canada

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  • J. Adam Perry

    (St. Francis Xavier University)

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This article examines how the dormitory labour system as it is employed in the agricultural streams of Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) affects workers’ everyday sociality. In the article, I demonstrate how the physical compression of home and work into a singular geographic site shapes workers’ identities and everyday relationships. Drawing on findings gathered from interviews with migrant farm workers from Mexico and Guatemala working in Southern Ontario, I explore how the requirement to warehouse temporary foreign workers directly on employer property collides with workers’ ability to establish an autonomous and dignified life in Canada. In particular, I demonstrate how the TFWP agricultural dormitory system produces inter-generational dynamics that intensify worker self-discipline and generates gender dynamics that support the development of a hyper-productive transnational workforce.

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  • J. Adam Perry, 2018. "Living at Work and Intra-worker Sociality Among Migrant Farm Workers in Canada," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 1021-1036, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joimai:v:19:y:2018:i:4:d:10.1007_s12134-018-0583-z
    DOI: 10.1007/s12134-018-0583-z
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    1. Leigh Binford, 2009. "From Fields of Power to Fields of Sweat: the dual process of constructing temporary migrant labour in Mexico and Canada," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(3), pages 503-517.
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    1. C. Susana Caxaj & Amy Cohen, 2019. "“I Will Not Leave My Body Here”: Migrant Farmworkers’ Health and Safety Amidst a Climate of Coercion," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(15), pages 1-14, July.
    2. Leah F. Vosko & Tanya Basok & Cynthia Spring & Guillermo Candiz & Glynis George, 2022. "Understanding Migrant Farmworkers’ Health and Well-Being during the Global COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada: Toward a Transnational Conceptualization of Employment Strain," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(14), pages 1-19, July.
    3. Leah F. Vosko & Cynthia Spring, 2022. "COVID-19 Outbreaks in Canada and the Crisis of Migrant Farmworkers’ Social Reproduction: Transnational Labour and the Need for Greater Accountability Among Receiving States," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 23(4), pages 1765-1791, December.
    4. Carlos Colindres & Amy Cohen & C. Susana Caxaj, 2021. "Migrant Agricultural Workers’ Health, Safety and Access to Protections: A Descriptive Survey Identifying Structural Gaps and Vulnerabilities in the Interior of British Columbia, Canada," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(7), pages 1-15, April.

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