Agriculture Workers Alliance

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Note: Some of the articles, reports, studies, documents, etc. provided on this page are in Spanish only. The views expressed are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the views of the AWA o www.awa-ata.ca. The AWA is not responsible for the content or views expressed on external sites.

Alberta Federation of Labour, 2007. “Temporary Foreign Workers: Alberta’s Disposable Workforce”.
http://www.afl.org/upload/AFLTFW.pdf Link

Barndt, Deborah. On the Move for Food: Three Women Behind the Tomato’s Journey. Women’s Studies Quarterly.
http://instdev.concordia.ca/ForumEnvironnement/DeborahBarndt/MoveForFood.htm Link

Barndt, Deborah. Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail. Landham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.

Basok, Tanya. Diasporas, Cultural Divides, and Social Encounters: Mexican Workers and Their Rights. http://www.yorku.ca/cerlac/migration/Tanya_Basok.pdf Link

Basok, Tanya. “Free to Be Unfree: Mexican Guest Workers in Canada.” Labour, Capital and Society 32 (2), 1999. pp. 192-221.

Basok, Tanya. Human Rights and Citizenship: the Case of Mexican Migrants in Canada. University of California, San Diego, 2003. Center for Comparative Immigration Studies.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=ccis Link

Basok, Tanya. “Mexican Seasonal Migration to Canada and Development: A Community-Based Comparison.” International Migration 41(2), 1999.

Basok, Tanya. (2004). “Post-National Citizenship, Social Exclusion, and Migrants’ Rights: Mexican Seasonal Workers in Canada.” Citizenship Studies 8(1), pp. 47-64.

Basok, Tanya. Tortillas and Tomatoes: Transmigrant Mexican Harvesters in Canada. Montreal: McGill University Press, 2003.

Bauder, Harald and Corbin, Margot. Foreign Farm Workers in Ontario: Representations in the Newsprint Media. University of Guelph.
http://www.uoguelph.ca/geography/research/ffw/papers/foreign-farm-workers.pdf Link

Bauder, Harald; Preibisch, Kery; Sutherland, Siobhan and Nash, Kerry. Impacts of Foreign Farm Workers in Ontario Communities. Sustainable Rural Communities Program, OMAFRA.
http://www.uoguelph.ca/geography/research/ffw/papers/impacts.pdf Link

Binford, Leigh. Campos agrícolas, campos de poder: el estado mexicano, los granjeros canadienses y los trabajadores temporales mexicanos.
Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
http://awa-ata.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/2006-evaluacion-del-programa-de-trabajadores-temporales.pdf
Link

Binford, Leigh (2003). “Migrant Remittances and (Under)Development in Mexico.” Critique of Anthropology 23 (3), pp. 305-336.

Binford, Leigh. Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program and Mexican Development. FOCAL: Canadian Foundation for the Americas.
http://www.focal.ca/pdf/pp_leigh_binford.pdf Link

Binford, Leigh (2002). “Social and Economic Contradictions of Rural Migrant Contract Labor Between Taxcala, Mexico and Canada.” Culture & Agriculture 24(2), pp.1-19.

Brem, Maxwell. Migrant Workers in Canada: A Review of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program.
Ottawa: North-South Institute.
English http://www.nsi-ins.ca/english/pdf/MigrantWorkers_Eng_Web.pdf Link

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. “Rights of Migrant Farm Workers Recognized.”
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/documents/Manitoba_Pubs/2007/FastFacts_July12_07_Mayfair_Farms.pdf Link

Durand, Jorge. Programas de trabajadores temporales: Evaluación y análisis del caso mexicano.
Consejo Nacional de Población. (Noviembre 2006)
http://awa-ata.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/2006-evaluacion-del-programa-de-trabajadores-temporales.pdfLink

Gibb, Heather. Farmworkers from afar. Ottawa: North-South Institute, 2006.
http://www.nsi-ins.ca/english/pdf/Farmworkers_Eng.pdf Link

Gibb, Heather. Trabajadores Agrícolas de Tierras Lejanas – Resultados de un estudio internacional
sobre los trabajadores agrícolas temporales de México y el Caribe que trabajan en granjas de Ontario. (Febrero 2006)
Ottawa:North-South Institute
Spanish http://www.nsi-ins.ca/english/pdf/Farmworkers_Spa.pdf Link

Preibisch, Kerry. Patterns of Social Exclusion and Inclusion of Migrant Workers in Rural Canada.
Ottawa: North-South Institute.
http://www.nsi-ins.ca/english/pdf/social_exclusion%20.pdf Link

Queens University discussion on the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program with Leigh Binford (Universidad Autónoma de Puebla), Ken Forth (FARMS) and Stan Raper (UFCW Canada).
http://media.libsyn.com/media/deconstructingdinner/DD042607.mp3 Link

Southern Poverty Law Center. Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States.
http://www.splcenter.org/pdf/static/SPLCguestworker.pdf Link

UFCW Canada: Status of Migrant Farmworkers - Reports 2002-2007.
http://awa-ata.ca/en/ufcw-canada-resources-and-publications/ Link

Verduzco, G. and M. I. Lozano (2003). “Mexican Farm Workers’ Participation in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Labour Market and Development Consequences in their Rural Home Communities.” Ottawa: North-South Institute.
http://www.nsi-ins.ca/english/pdf/exec_sum_verduzco.pdf Link

Verma, Veena. The Mexican and Caribbean Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program: Regulatory and Policy Framework, Farm Industry Level Employment Practices, and the Future of the Program Under Unionization.
Ottawa: North-South Institute.
http://www.nsi-ins.ca/english/pdf/csawp_verma_final_report.pdf Link

Verma, Veena. The Regulatory and Policy Framework of the Caribbean Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program.
Ottawa: North-South Institute.
http://www.nsi-ins.ca/english/pdf/Regulatory_Policy_Verma.pdf Link