Interrogating Racialized Global Labour Supply
An Exploration of the Racial/National Replaceme of Foreign Agricultural Workers in Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12924934 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kerry Preibisch (University of Guelph, corresponding author), Leigh Binford (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-36 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1755-6171 • E-ISSN: 1755-618X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1755-618x.2007.tb01146.x |
| OpenAlex | W2040265708 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 57 |
| References cited | 26 |
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 flexible. Parfois même, les discours des agriculteurs affichent un racisme grossier, dépeignant les honimes antillais comme des Noirs hypersexués qui présentent un risque pour les Canadiennes, alors que, d'autres fois, ces préjugés raciaux sont formulées en termes de prédispositions physiques ou psychologiques à travailler à certaines récoltes. This paper analyses the replacement of Caribbean workers by Mexicans in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, highlighting the role of racialized understandings in implementing foreign worker programs. It argues that a process of racialization underpins the discourses employed by Ontario growers in search of the most hardworking, reliable and flexible labour force. Sometimes grower discourses manifest a crude racism, casting Caribbean men as hypersexualized Black subjects who pose a risk to Canadian women, while other times these racialized assumptions are framed in terms of physical and/or psychic dispositions to the production of certain crops
Art · Ethnology · Humanities · Political science · Psychic · Race (biology · Racialization · Racism · Sociology · Stress (linguistics · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy
Barely legal
Campos agrícolas, campos de poder
Rotten asparagus and just-in-time workers
Ethnography of exploitation in seasonal agricultural labor. The case of Bulgarian Roma laborers in Apulia, Southern Italy
The devaluation of female labour in fruit and vegetable packaging plants in Spanish Mediterranean agriculture
The Family Behind the Farm
Capital espacial entre los trabajadores agrícolas mexicanos en contextos de trabajo no libre en Canadá
The Other Side of el Otro Lado
‘A Strong Mind and a Solid Physique’
Migrant farmworkers
Structured exclusions, partial inclusions
Assessing temporary foreign worker programs through the prism of Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program
Migrant–Local Hiring Queues in the UK Food Industry
Business or Bureaucratic Dominance in Immigration Policymaking in Canada
Les experts de la bureaucratie migratoire
Forgetting’ to survive
The Revolving Door of Im/Migration
The transnational agricultural care chains of migrant farmworkers
Exploring migrants’ knowledge and skill in seasonal farm work
From Labour of Love to Decent Work
Mexican Migrant Farmworkers in Canada
Spaces of alienation in the tobacco fields
Temporariness, Rights, and Citizenship
A Model for Managed Migration? Re‐Examining Best Practices in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program
The ‘contract’ and its discontents
Troubling the Fields
Transnational Precarity
Historicizing precarity
Five Decades of Class Analysis in the Canadian Review of Sociology
Pick-Your-Own Labor
Consent behind the counter
Points of Prejudice
Labour, Migration and the Spatial Fix
Single Mothers, Absentee Fathers, and Gun Violence in Toronto
NoBodies
Mujeres berracas
Regulatory disempowerment
Migration, immigration controls and the fashioning of precarious workers
Building Inequality
Does Citizenship Status Matter in Canadian Agriculture? Workplace Health and Safety for Migrant and Immigrant Laborers
Local Produce, Foreign Labor
Local gastronomy, transnational labour
Domestic transnationalism
Transnational labour contractor regime in the China-Myanmar borderland
Permanently Temporary Examining the Interdependencies Between Racialization, Circular Migration, and Labor Contractors
Housing, health equity, and global capitalist power
Reproducing Deportability
Beyond the 'Triple Win
Temporary migration and middle class nation building in Canada
The production of precariousness and the racialisation of Pacific Islanders in an Australian horticultural region
Uncertain future, unsettled present
A Link in Global Agrifood Chains
Destruction productive ou prédation permanente ? L'eau, le travail et l'accumulation dans la production de fraises à Huelva (Andalousie, Espagne)
Travail, morale et dépendance personnelle
Assembling a visa requirement against the Mexican 'wave
Rights and Restrictions
Offloading Migration Management
Racism and the incorporation of foreign labour
The Dialectics of Still Life
Tortillas and Tomatoes
Campos agrícolas, campos de poder
Negotiating Citizenship
Women in Motion
Home Economics
Social and Economic Contradictions of Rural Migrant Contract Labor Between Tlaxcala, Mexico and Canada
On Being Not Canadian
Does the Vertical Mosaic Still Exist? Ethnicity and Income in Canada, 1991
Gender and U.S. Immigration
Stereotypes and Ambivalence
In the Privacy of our own Home
Gender and the Political Economy of Development
He Came, He Saw, He Stayed. Guest Worker Programmes and the Issue of Non‐Return
Mexican Seasonal Migration to Canada and Development
The Migration–Development Nexus Evidence and Policy Options State–of–the–Art Overview
Globalisation and regulation of citizenship-Filipino migrant workers in Japan
Contract Labour in Canada and The United States
Migrant Agricultural Workers and Processes of Social Inclusion in Rural Canada
Racial Assumptions in Global Labor Recruitment and Supply
The Human Condition of West Indian Migrant Farm Labour in Southwestern Ontario
El Programa de Trabajadores Agrícolas Mexicanos con Canadá
Maid in the Market
| Unique citing works | 57 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 56 |