Detalles del documento

Imprima y guarde

Tesis

Workin' on the contract: St. Lucian farmworkers in Ontario. A study of international labour migration

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Fecha

1998

Autores

Sherrie Noreen Larkin

Resumen

This dissertation examines the seasonal round of St Lucian contract workers who travel to Ontario every year for temporary employment in the Foreign Agricultural Resources Management Service programme (FARMS). The study's focus is divided among Ontario growers as employers, St Lucian agricultural workers as employees, residents of a rural town in Southwestern Ontario, and governmental departments that influence the FARMS programme in Canada and in St Lucia. The main argument of the dissertation is that labour migration has been an integral part of St Lucian history since emancipation on the island. It is both an economic strategy and a symbol of the freedom emancipation promised. While factors external to the island, such as the need for agricultural labour in Ontario and a long history of connections between Canada and the British West Indies influence where St Lucians travel, the propensity of these men and women to leave the island and return can only be explained in terms of St Lucia's history as a British colony. Within this history, labour migration emerges in conjunction with other strategies of enduring yet resisting the plantation economy that characterized the island for centuries. Although "workin' on the contract" in Canada is used by St Lucians for individual social and economic goals, it derives its meaning from the shared cultural beliefs and values of the island's society.

Number of pages

308

Universidad

McMaster University (Canada)

Departamento Académico

Anthropology

Nivel

Ph.D.

Lugar de publicación

Hamilton

Archivos adjuntos

Conexiones

Los sectores económicos

Agriculture and horticulture workers

Tipos de contenido

Análisis de políticas

Los grupos destinatarios

Los investigadores

Áreas de regulación

Derecho a cambiar de empleador, Derecho a elegir su lugar de residencia, Derecho a organizarse, Normas Laborales, Salud y Seguridad, y La reunificación familiar

Relevancia geográfica

Ontario y Other Caribbean States

Esferas de la actividad

Socioligie

Idiomas

Inglés