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The Human Condition of West Indian Migrant Farm Labour in Southwestern Ontario

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Petsa

1991

May-akda

R. G. Cecil and Eddie Ebanks

Buod

West Indian migrant farm laborers are crucial to the agricultural process in Ontario. Also, they are human beings isolated from homes & families, for varying lengths of time, in a foreign environment. The fundamental issue raised here concerns the conditions of life for these workers. The methods of anthropology, demography, & geography were combined to conduct a pilot study, collecting questionnaire data from 300 workers & 25 farmers. Concurrently, anthropological analysis was carried out on both groups via in-depth interviews. It was postulated that the work situation would replicate some aspects of the old tropical colonial plantation relationship, & indeed it was so for certain aspects. It was further hypothesized that the workers would experience certain degrees of loneliness & isolation in Canada, which was also proven to be true in many cases. Data allow some preliminary examinations of farmer-worker relationships, which ran the gamut from pure detachment to quasi-familial integration. The global aspects of the workers' human condition are presented. 3 Tables, 37 References. Modified AA

Journal title

International Migration/Migrations Internationales/Migraciones Internationales

Dami

29

Numero

3

Page numbers

371-495

Kalakip

    Connections

    Pang-ekonomiyang sektor

    Agriculture and horticulture workers

    Mga Uri ng Nilalaman

    Policy analysis

    Geographical kaugnayan

    Ontario

    Spheres ng aktibidad

    Heograpya and Socioligie

    Wika

    Ingles