Détails du document

Impression et sauvegarde

Article de journal

The Other Side of el Otro Lado: Mexican Migrant Women and Labor Flexibility in Canadian Agriculture

Date

2010

Auteurs

Kerry Preibisch et Evelyn Encalada Grez

Résumé

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 sector that has increased demands for

waged laborers. This article speaks to these limitations by tracing the

incorporation of Mexican women into the Canadian agricultural sector as

temporary migrant workers. In exploring the lived realities of these

women, it reveals workplaces characterized by highly gendered,

racialized employment relations and illustrates how temporary migrant

worker programs further entrench existing structures of labor

segmentation in agriculture. While temporary migrant worker programs

have brought greater flexibility into the Canadian agricultural labor

market by enabling a particular set of employment practices that rest

on gendered, racialized subjectivities, these processes are by no means

uncontested by the actors they seek to command.

Journal title

Journal of Women in Culture and Society

Volume

35

Numéro

2

Page numbers

289-316

Éditeur

University of Chicago

Lieu de publication

Chicago

Fichiers joints

Liens

Secteurs économiques

Agriculture and horticulture workers

Types de contenu

Policy analysis

Groupes cibles

Chercheurs, Syndicats et ONG/groupes communautaires/réseaux de solidarité

Pertinence géographique

Canada, Ontario, Alberta, México, Manitoba, Quebec, Colombie-Britannique, Autres provinces, Fédéral, Nouvelle-Écosse et National relevance

Sphères d’activité

Économie, Études en genre et sexualité et Socioligie

Langues

Anglais