Kerry Preibisch
Biographic Data
| ID | 75670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerry Preibisch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerry |
| FAMILY NAME | Preibisch |
| SIGNATURE | PREIBISCH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 293 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Value of Reproductive Labor
Pursuing the capabilities approach within the migration-development nexus
The ‘migration–development nexus’ has become an established development mantra with debate surrounding the ability of migration to promote economic growth and reduce poverty. The optimism of this debate is paired with a push to control migration through the promotion of temporary migration programmes and initiatives considered to support the regular movement of migrants. This dominant paradigm has come under criticism, however, for overlooking th…
Out of the Loop: (In)access to Health Care for Migrant Workers in Canada
Does Citizenship Status Matter in Canadian Agriculture? Workplace Health and Safety for Migrant and Immigrant Laborers
This article explores how precarious legal status circumscribes differential inclusion in the agricultural labor market and affects workers' lives through a comparative study of workplace health and safety among temporary migrant guest workers and immigrants in Canada. Original, multimethod research with South Asian immigrant and Mexican migrant farmworkers examines employment practices, working conditions, and health-care access. We find that bo…
Class, Contention, and a World in Motion
Book Review| March 01 2013 Class, Contention, and a World in Motion Class, Contention, and a World in Motion. Lem, Winnie and Barber, Pauline Gardiner, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010vii + 240 pp., $70.00 (cloth) Kerry Preibisch Kerry Preibisch Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2013) 10 (1): 154–157. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1899132 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citatio…
Between hearts and pockets: Locating the outcomes of transnational homemaking practices among Mexican women in Canada's temporary migration programmes
Temporary migration programmes (TMPs) contain features such as reduced costs and the social legitimation of regularized entry that allow women, including the very poor, to access transnational livelihoods. For mothers, taking up opportunities for employment abroad inevitably involves ‘transnational homemaking’, the set practices involved in caring for family relationships and maintaining household economies across borders. In this article, we exa…
The Other Side of el Otro Lado: Mexican Migrant Women and Labor Flexibility in Canadian Agriculture
Global restructuring is dramatically reshaping how women and men around the world relate to agriculture. While gender analysis has been central to research on labor‐intensive, corporate agriculture in the global South, it is rarely invoked in the literature exploring these trends in the North. Moreover, research on gender in agriculture in high‐income countries has tended to focus on women in family farms, despite extensive restructuring of the s…
Pick-Your-Own Labor: Migrant Workers and Flexibility in Canadian Agriculture
This paper explores the structures and practices of temporary migrant worker programs (TMWP) as they operate in Canadian agriculture. Acting within highly competitive, globalized markets, agri-food employers rely on the availability of migrant workers to achieve greater flexibility in their labor arrangements, drawing on employment practices beyond those possible with a domestic workforce. Most recently, changes to Canada's two TMWP schemes have …
A Model for Managed Migration? Re‐Examining Best Practices in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program
This paper situates Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) within the policy and scholarly debates on “best practices” for the management of temporary migration, and examines what makes this programme successful from the perspective of states and employers. Drawing on extensive qualitative and quantitative study of temporary migration in Canada, this article critically examines this seminal temporary migration programme as a “best p…
Migration as Preservation and Loss: The Paradox of Transnational Living for Low German Mennonite Women
Throughout history, conservative groups of Low German-speaking Mennonites have collectively migrated to preserve their religious integrity. However, their contemporary migrations to North America are not collective or church-sanctioned, but primarily economically motivated. This paper explores the intertwined processes of gender and religion in transnational social spaces through the destination experiences of Mennonite women in Canada. The parad…
Interrogating Racialized Global Labour Supply: An Exploration of the Racial/National Replaceme of Foreign Agricultural Workers in Canada
Dans cet article, on analyse le remplacement des travailleurs antillais par des Mexicains dans le Programme des travailleurs agricoles saisonniers du gouvernement du Canada, en mettant l'accent sur le rôle des interprétations racialisées dans la mise en œuvre de ce genre de programme. On y soutient qu'un mécanisme de racialisation étaie les discours des agriculteurs ontariens à la recherche de la main‐d œuvre la plus laborieuse, fiable et flexibl…
Local Produce, Foreign Labor: Labor Mobility Programs and Global Trade Competitiveness in Canada
Temporary visa workers are increasingly taking on a heightened profile in Canada, entering the workforce each year in greater numbers than immigrant workers with labor mobility rights (Sharma 2006). This paper examines the incorporation of foreign workers in Canadian horticulture under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). I argue that foreign labor supplied under the SAWP secures a flexible workforce for employers and thus improves C…
Migrant Agricultural Workers and Processes of Social Inclusion in Rural Canada: EncuentrosandDesencuentros
For 38 years, agricultural workers from the Caribbean and Mexico have spent extended periods working in Canada under a guest worker program. In this article I explore worker-community relations in the Canadian rural communities in which they live, examining the ties that have developed between non-citizen migrant agricultural workers and civil society. Although the integration of migrant workers as a social group into Canadian society is characte…
Discussion - Agricultural Policy Reform and Rural Livelihoods in Central Mexico
This contribution examines the impact of profound changes to agricultural policy implemented since 1988 on the livelihoods of Mexico's rural population. Detailed studies in four villages show that rural incomes are very unevenly distributed within communities leaving half of households in poverty. During the last decade key factors affecting village economies have been international and national, rather than specific changes to farm policy. Most …
Defending Food Security in a Free-Market Economy: The Gendered Dimensions of Restructuring in Rural Mexico
Since 1988, Mexican agricultural policy has undergone significant revisions designed to further align the sector with a model of globally organized growth. This paper examines how maize-producing households in an indigenous community of Mexico's central highlands have negotiated major changes to agricultural policy. Despite strong disincentives to maize production, surface area planted with maize did not decrease. Although farmers adjusted their …
Pick-Your-Own Labor: Migrant Workers and Flexibility in Canadian Agriculture
This paper explores the structures and practices of temporary migrant worker programs (TMWP) as they operate in Canadian agriculture. Acting within highly competitive, globalized markets, agri-food employers rely on the availability of migrant workers to achieve greater flexibility in their labor arrangements, drawing on employment practices beyond those possible with a domestic workforce. Most recently, changes to Canada's two TMWP schemes have …
A Model for Managed Migration? Re‐Examining Best Practices in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program
This paper situates Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) within the policy and scholarly debates on “best practices” for the management of temporary migration, and examines what makes this programme successful from the perspective of states and employers. Drawing on extensive qualitative and quantitative study of temporary migration in Canada, this article critically examines this seminal temporary migration programme as a “best p…
Does Citizenship Status Matter in Canadian Agriculture? Workplace Health and Safety for Migrant and Immigrant Laborers
This article explores how precarious legal status circumscribes differential inclusion in the agricultural labor market and affects workers' lives through a comparative study of workplace health and safety among temporary migrant guest workers and immigrants in Canada. Original, multimethod research with South Asian immigrant and Mexican migrant farmworkers examines employment practices, working conditions, and health-care access. We find that bo…
Local Produce, Foreign Labor: Labor Mobility Programs and Global Trade Competitiveness in Canada
Temporary visa workers are increasingly taking on a heightened profile in Canada, entering the workforce each year in greater numbers than immigrant workers with labor mobility rights (Sharma 2006). This paper examines the incorporation of foreign workers in Canadian horticulture under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). I argue that foreign labor supplied under the SAWP secures a flexible workforce for employers and thus improves C…
Migrant Agricultural Workers and Processes of Social Inclusion in Rural Canada: EncuentrosandDesencuentros
For 38 years, agricultural workers from the Caribbean and Mexico have spent extended periods working in Canada under a guest worker program. In this article I explore worker-community relations in the Canadian rural communities in which they live, examining the ties that have developed between non-citizen migrant agricultural workers and civil society. Although the integration of migrant workers as a social group into Canadian society is characte…
Interrogating Racialized Global Labour Supply: An Exploration of the Racial/National Replaceme of Foreign Agricultural Workers in Canada
Dans cet article, on analyse le remplacement des travailleurs antillais par des Mexicains dans le Programme des travailleurs agricoles saisonniers du gouvernement du Canada, en mettant l'accent sur le rôle des interprétations racialisées dans la mise en œuvre de ce genre de programme. On y soutient qu'un mécanisme de racialisation étaie les discours des agriculteurs ontariens à la recherche de la main‐d œuvre la plus laborieuse, fiable et flexibl…
Out of the Loop: (In)access to Health Care for Migrant Workers in Canada
The Value of Reproductive Labor
Pursuing the capabilities approach within the migration-development nexus
The ‘migration–development nexus’ has become an established development mantra with debate surrounding the ability of migration to promote economic growth and reduce poverty. The optimism of this debate is paired with a push to control migration through the promotion of temporary migration programmes and initiatives considered to support the regular movement of migrants. This dominant paradigm has come under criticism, however, for overlooking th…
Between hearts and pockets: Locating the outcomes of transnational homemaking practices among Mexican women in Canada's temporary migration programmes
Temporary migration programmes (TMPs) contain features such as reduced costs and the social legitimation of regularized entry that allow women, including the very poor, to access transnational livelihoods. For mothers, taking up opportunities for employment abroad inevitably involves ‘transnational homemaking’, the set practices involved in caring for family relationships and maintaining household economies across borders. In this article, we exa…
Migration as Preservation and Loss: The Paradox of Transnational Living for Low German Mennonite Women
Throughout history, conservative groups of Low German-speaking Mennonites have collectively migrated to preserve their religious integrity. However, their contemporary migrations to North America are not collective or church-sanctioned, but primarily economically motivated. This paper explores the intertwined processes of gender and religion in transnational social spaces through the destination experiences of Mennonite women in Canada. The parad…
Discussion - Agricultural Policy Reform and Rural Livelihoods in Central Mexico
This contribution examines the impact of profound changes to agricultural policy implemented since 1988 on the livelihoods of Mexico's rural population. Detailed studies in four villages show that rural incomes are very unevenly distributed within communities leaving half of households in poverty. During the last decade key factors affecting village economies have been international and national, rather than specific changes to farm policy. Most …
Defending Food Security in a Free-Market Economy: The Gendered Dimensions of Restructuring in Rural Mexico
Since 1988, Mexican agricultural policy has undergone significant revisions designed to further align the sector with a model of globally organized growth. This paper examines how maize-producing households in an indigenous community of Mexico's central highlands have negotiated major changes to agricultural policy. Despite strong disincentives to maize production, surface area planted with maize did not decrease. Although farmers adjusted their …
Migrant Agricultural Workers and Processes of Social Inclusion in Rural Canada: EncuentrosandDesencuentros
For 38 years, agricultural workers from the Caribbean and Mexico have spent extended periods working in Canada under a guest worker program. In this article I explore worker-community relations in the Canadian rural communities in which they live, examining the ties that have developed between non-citizen migrant agricultural workers and civil society. Although the integration of migrant workers as a social group into Canadian society is characte…
Interrogating Racialized Global Labour Supply: An Exploration of the Racial/National Replaceme of Foreign Agricultural Workers in Canada
Dans cet article, on analyse le remplacement des travailleurs antillais par des Mexicains dans le Programme des travailleurs agricoles saisonniers du gouvernement du Canada, en mettant l'accent sur le rôle des interprétations racialisées dans la mise en œuvre de ce genre de programme. On y soutient qu'un mécanisme de racialisation étaie les discours des agriculteurs ontariens à la recherche de la main‐d œuvre la plus laborieuse, fiable et flexibl…
Local Produce, Foreign Labor: Labor Mobility Programs and Global Trade Competitiveness in Canada
Temporary visa workers are increasingly taking on a heightened profile in Canada, entering the workforce each year in greater numbers than immigrant workers with labor mobility rights (Sharma 2006). This paper examines the incorporation of foreign workers in Canadian horticulture under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). I argue that foreign labor supplied under the SAWP secures a flexible workforce for employers and thus improves C…
The Other Side of el Otro Lado: Mexican Migrant Women and Labor Flexibility in Canadian Agriculture
Global restructuring is dramatically reshaping how women and men around the world relate to agriculture. While gender analysis has been central to research on labor‐intensive, corporate agriculture in the global South, it is rarely invoked in the literature exploring these trends in the North. Moreover, research on gender in agriculture in high‐income countries has tended to focus on women in family farms, despite extensive restructuring of the s…
Pick-Your-Own Labor: Migrant Workers and Flexibility in Canadian Agriculture
This paper explores the structures and practices of temporary migrant worker programs (TMWP) as they operate in Canadian agriculture. Acting within highly competitive, globalized markets, agri-food employers rely on the availability of migrant workers to achieve greater flexibility in their labor arrangements, drawing on employment practices beyond those possible with a domestic workforce. Most recently, changes to Canada's two TMWP schemes have …
A Model for Managed Migration? Re‐Examining Best Practices in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program
This paper situates Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) within the policy and scholarly debates on “best practices” for the management of temporary migration, and examines what makes this programme successful from the perspective of states and employers. Drawing on extensive qualitative and quantitative study of temporary migration in Canada, this article critically examines this seminal temporary migration programme as a “best p…
Migration as Preservation and Loss: The Paradox of Transnational Living for Low German Mennonite Women
Throughout history, conservative groups of Low German-speaking Mennonites have collectively migrated to preserve their religious integrity. However, their contemporary migrations to North America are not collective or church-sanctioned, but primarily economically motivated. This paper explores the intertwined processes of gender and religion in transnational social spaces through the destination experiences of Mennonite women in Canada. The parad…
Class, Contention, and a World in Motion
Book Review| March 01 2013 Class, Contention, and a World in Motion Class, Contention, and a World in Motion. Lem, Winnie and Barber, Pauline Gardiner, eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010vii + 240 pp., $70.00 (cloth) Kerry Preibisch Kerry Preibisch Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2013) 10 (1): 154–157. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1899132 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citatio…
Between hearts and pockets: Locating the outcomes of transnational homemaking practices among Mexican women in Canada's temporary migration programmes
Temporary migration programmes (TMPs) contain features such as reduced costs and the social legitimation of regularized entry that allow women, including the very poor, to access transnational livelihoods. For mothers, taking up opportunities for employment abroad inevitably involves ‘transnational homemaking’, the set practices involved in caring for family relationships and maintaining household economies across borders. In this article, we exa…
Does Citizenship Status Matter in Canadian Agriculture? Workplace Health and Safety for Migrant and Immigrant Laborers
This article explores how precarious legal status circumscribes differential inclusion in the agricultural labor market and affects workers' lives through a comparative study of workplace health and safety among temporary migrant guest workers and immigrants in Canada. Original, multimethod research with South Asian immigrant and Mexican migrant farmworkers examines employment practices, working conditions, and health-care access. We find that bo…
Pursuing the capabilities approach within the migration-development nexus
The ‘migration–development nexus’ has become an established development mantra with debate surrounding the ability of migration to promote economic growth and reduce poverty. The optimism of this debate is paired with a push to control migration through the promotion of temporary migration programmes and initiatives considered to support the regular movement of migrants. This dominant paradigm has come under criticism, however, for overlooking th…
Out of the Loop: (In)access to Health Care for Migrant Workers in Canada
The Value of Reproductive Labor
Political science (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (8 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works)