TY - JOUR T1 - Barely legal: racism and migrant farm labour in the context of Canadian multiculturalism IS - 2 N2 - This article investigates how colonial attitudes towards race operate alongside official multiculturalism in Canada to justify the legally exceptional exclusion of migrant farm workers from Canada's socio-political framework. The Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program is presented in this article as a relic of Canada's racist and colonial past, one that continues uninterrupted in the present age of statist multiculturalism. The legal continuation and growth in the use of non-citizens to conduct labour distasteful to Canadian nationals has provided an effective means for the Canadian state to regulate the ongoing flow of non-preferred races on the margins while promoting a pluralist and ethnically diverse political image at home and abroad. In the face of a labour shortage constructed as a political crisis of considerable urgency, the Canadian state has continued to admit non-immigrants into the country to perform labour deemed unattractive yet necessary for the well-being of Canadian citizens while simultaneously suspending the citizenship and individual rights of those same individual migrant workers. By legislating the restriction of rights and freedoms to a permanently revolving door of temporary non-citizens through the mechanism of a guest worker programme, the Canadian state is participating in the bio-political regulation of foreign nationals. A1 - Perry, Adam Y1 - 2012/// KW - Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program KW - race UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13621025.2012.667611#.U2JZ1dwtrcQ Y2 - 2014-05-01 JA - Citizenship Studies VL - 16 SP - 189 M2 - 189 SP - 189-201 ER -