Migrant farm worker justice in Canada

Books and Book Chapters

• Choudry, A., & Smith, A. (Eds.). (2016). Unfree Labour?: Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada. PM Press.
• Binford, L. (2013). Tomorrow we’re all going to the harvest: Temporary foreign worker programs and neoliberal political economy. University of Texas Press
• McLaughlin, J., & Hennebry, J. (2013). Pathways to Precarity: Structural Vulnerabilities and Lived Consequences for Migrant Farmworkers in Canada. In L. Goldring & P. Landolt (Eds.), Producing and negotiating non-citizenship: Precarious legal status in Canada (pp. 175-194). University of Toronto Press.
• Lenard, P. T., & Straehle, C. (2012). Legislated inequality: temporary labour migration in Canada. McGill-Queen’s Press.
• Preibisch, K., and Encalada, E. (2011). Re-examining the Social Relations of the Canadian ‘Family Farm’: Migrant Women Farm Workers in Rural Canada. In Pini, Barbara and Leach, Belinda (eds.) Reshaping Gender and Class in Rural Spaces (pp. 91-112). Ashgate Publishing.
• Ramsaroop, C., & Wolk, K. (2009). Can we achieve racial equality in the food security movement? In C. Palassio & A. Wilcox (Eds.), The edible city: Toronto’s food from farm to fork (pp. 252–263). Coach House Books.
• Pietropaolo, V. (2009). Harvest pilgrims: Mexican and Caribbean migrant farm workers in Canada. Between the Lines.
• Bauder, H. (2006). Offshore Labor in Ontario. In Labor movement: How migration regulates labor markets (pp. 155-198). Oxford University Press.
• Basok, T. (2002). Tortillas and tomatoes: Transmigrant Mexican harvesters in Canada. McGill-Queen’s Press.
• Satzewich, V. (1991). Racism and the incorporation of foreign labour: Farm labor migration to Canada since 1945. Routledge.

Reports

• Canada’s Choice: Decent Work or Entrenched Exploitation for Canada’s Migrant Workers? (Metcalf Foundation, 2016)
• The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada (UFCW & AWA, 2015)
• Citizenship and Precarious Labour in Canadian Agriculture (CCPA, 2015)
• The Migrant Farmworker Health Journey; Key Issues & Recommendations for Canada’s TFWP; Background on Health and Safety for Migrant Farmworkers in Canada (IMRC, 2010, 2011, 2014)
• Profiting from the Precarious: How Recruitment Practices Exploit Migrant Workers (Metcalf Foundation, 2014)
• Migrant Workers – Provincial and Federal Report Cards (CCR, 2013)
• Permanently Temporary? Agricultural Migrant Workers and Their Integration in Canada (IRPP, 2012)
• Made in Canada: How the Law Constructs Migrant Worker Insecurity (Metcalf Foundation, 2012)
• Vulnerabilities of Female Migrant Farm Workers from Latin America and the Caribbean in Canada (FOCAL, 2011)
• Cultivating Farmworker Rights: Ending the Exploitation of Immigrant and Migrant Farmworkers in BC (CCPA, 2008)
• Justice for Migrant Farm Workers: Reflections on the Importance of Community Organising (Socialist Project, 2009)

Documentaries and Photography

• Migrant Dreams [78 min.]
• After Work [Photo Essay from Leamington, Ontario]
• Temporary Uprooting: Seasonal Life [7 min.]
• Matices: “Temporary” Migration in Canada [53 min.]
• Teo in Toronto [4 min.]
• El Contrato [51 min.]

Migrant Worker Rights Organizations in Canada

• Agriculture Workers Alliance
• BC Employment Standards Coalition
• Caregivers’ Action Centre
• Coalition for Migrant Worker Rights Canada
• Fuerza Puwersa Migrant Solidarity
• Migrante Canada
• Migrant Workers Alliance for Change
• Migrant Worker Health
• Migrant Workers Rights
• No One is Illegal
• Radical Action with Migrants in Agriculture
• Workers’ Action Centre (Toronto)