Algunas reflexiones El principal objetivo de nuestro trabajo es fortalecer comunidad, proveer un espacio para que todas y todas sean escuchados/as y así aprender de uno y otro. Este fin de semana tuvimos dos eventos, uno con muchos compañeros de varios países que son trabajadores agrícolas migrantes. Y después el día domingo fue un evento […]
Filed under: Farm Work
I had to pick up Laura at the apple farm with two police officers. We left the farm in such haste that Laura’s belongings were scattered in various plastic bags. It was a rescue mission more reminiscent of a crime scene. She could not leave without lovingly saying goodbye to each of the women with […]
Tags: Canada, food production, injustice, migrant, migrantworkers, temporary foreign worker programs, women, work
Filed under: Dissertation, Farm Work, Mexico, Migration
I have kept these lines private for a while but it is time to share words and sentiments that are part of transnational organizing work. I felt so honoured and blessed from Francisco’s beautiful corrido. Para personas valientes están hechos los corridos Y este que voy a cantarles lo tiene bien merecido Una mujer hermosa […]
Tags: corrido, Evelyn Encalada, justice for migrant workers, Mexico, Ontario, organizing, SAWP, transnational
Filed under: Dissertation, Farm Work, Inspirational, Mexico, Migration
Since 2008 the entrance of temporary foreign workers have outnumbered immigrants permitted to settle permanently in Canada. The media have fed into the panacea that Temporary Foreign Programs (TFWPs) are stealing “Canadian jobs”, which resounded loudly with the controversy surrounding the Royal Bank last year and more recently with McDonalds locations in British Columbia and […]
Temporary Foreign Worker Programs structure marginality and exclusion among people who are part of the most precarious of these schemes. In turn people are pushed to the very edges of themselves as they fight to survive and hold themselves together. Bonifacio was falling apart in the hospital. It was his second or third visit. The […]
Filed under: Dissertation, Farm Work, Migration
Es verano, unas de nuestras compañeras migrantes se van, otras se transfieren a otras farmas, otras esperan regresar para la nueva cosecha de frutas; la vida gira con la producción, el tiempo y el amor pasa atreves de los contratos de trabajo y nuestra amistad sigue aquí y allá, atravez del tiempo en Mexico y […]
Filed under: Dissertation, Farm Work, Film, Mexico, Migration, Work
“El Contrato” turned 10 years old last year. We commemorated its anniversary by bringing Teodoro Bello Martinez to Toronto to have a public event to discuss changes that migrant workers have experienced in rural Ontario since its release. After a decade, “El Contrato” continues to be widely used to raise awareness about realities that are […]
Borders Crossed: Migration, Temporary Workers and Undocumented Migrants Tuesday, January 22, 2013, 12:45-2:15 Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, HNES 140 Participants: Yogi Acharya, Evelyn Encalada, Liette Gilbert, Min Sook Lee Migration control has been crucial in creating modern nation states and racialized forms of citizenship. This holds true also for Canadian migration policy, which […]
Filed under: Community Events, Farm Work, Mexico, Migration
