Temporarily Unchained: The Drive to Unionize Foreign Seasonal Agricultural Workers in Canada -- A Comment on Greenway Farms and UFCW (original) (raw)
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The successful management of the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) in Canada for the past 52 years lies with the bilateral agreement of the program's Memorandum of Understanding. Despite its expansion over the decades, the program does not offer a pathway to permanent residency for migrant farm-workers. The power imbalance in maintaining the ability to grant permanent residence pathways lies mainly with the host country (Canada). However, source country by proxy also appears to play a role in maintaining the temporary nature of the program via managing and policing the SAWP workers. Based on a case study, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and a total of 10 interviews with workers, former workers, former and current civil servants responsible for the program in this country, the Major Research Paper interrogates the roles played by the source country in the continuation of the temporary migrant status and conditions associated with SAWP. .
Sub-national Units And Agricultural Workers Programs In Canada
El Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) o Programa de Trabajadores Agrícolas Temporales México-Canadá (PTAT), que desde 1974 funciona como un modelo de cooperación binacional entre ambas naciones y permite, a partir de sus constantes evaluaciones, garantizar las mejores condiciones laborales de los trabajadores migrantes, así como dar continuidad a un flujo migratorio temporal, ordenado, legal y seguro. El objetivo de este documento es describir y contribuir al debate sobre las unidades subnacionales, poniendo énfasis en los actores locales y sus condiciones laborales dentro de esta dinámica bilateral. Si bien el programa trata de aprovechar la dinámica de la oferta y demanda de mano de obra migrante, y que en condiciones específicas ha contribuido, por el envío de remesas y sirve como aliciente limitado a las localidades rurales mexicanas, las condiciones laborales de los trabajadores están cada vez más desregulados y vulnerables, principalmente con la aplicación del Low Skilled Workers Program.
CANADA'S TEMPORARY LABOR MIGRATION POLICY: THE CASE OF MEXICAN SEASONAL AGRICULTURAL WORKERS
Politeja 6 (81), 2022
The article analyzes Canadian temporary foreign worker migration policies through the prism of Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), one of the largest and oldest seasonal worker programs in Canada's postwar immigration policies, whose main participants are seasonal farmworker migrants from Mexico. The article outlines the premises of Canadian labor migration policies and presents a brief history of Mexican migrations to Canada. Most importantly, however, it focuses on the functioning of SAWP, presenting the program's positive impact as well as its shortages and failures through the lens of experiences of its Mexican participants. The summary of this text proposes certain reforms and changes to SAWP that might help eliminate some of the program's deficiencies.