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Claiming the Road : = Intersectional Mobilities and Unfreedom among Migrant Farmworkers in Canada.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Claiming the Road :/
Reminder of title:	Intersectional Mobilities and Unfreedom among Migrant Farmworkers in Canada.
Author:	Reid-Musson, Emily R.
Description:	1 online resource (217 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.
Subject:	Geography. -
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ISBN:	9780355453584

Claiming the Road : = Intersectional Mobilities and Unfreedom among Migrant Farmworkers in Canada.
Reid-Musson, Emily R.

Claiming the Road :Intersectional Mobilities and Unfreedom among Migrant Farmworkers in Canada. - 1 online resource (217 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

This study considers the travel patterns, practices and conditions that shape how migrant farmworkers circulate in rural southwestern Ontario. While migrants in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) do not exercise occupational mobility and are housed in employer-provided accommodations, they are otherwise legally entitled to circulate freely in Canada. In practical terms, however, most experience significant mobility barriers. The study investigates the mechanisms by which migrant farmworkers are confined and immobilized to farm spaces on systemic levels, contributing to a vein of research on the immobilities that pervade everyday life for transnational, low-wage labour migrants. I show how localized mobility controls placed around migrants as well as inadequate transportation create a "mobility fix" for farm operators and state actors. Technologies of confinement that immobilize migrant farmworkers are justified through racial and sexual ideologies about migrants being a threatening presence in rural Canada, while permitting high levels of value to be extracted from migrants' labour.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355453584Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Claiming the Road : = Intersectional Mobilities and Unfreedom among Migrant Farmworkers in Canada.
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520 $a The dissertation is organized as three empirical journal articles which are preceded by a chapter on research methods.
520 $a In the first article I document how a purported problem with transient farm labour migration to Ontario from Quebec and Atlantic Canada was constructed in the 1960's and 1970's. In response, the Canadian government devised the SAWP as an institutional mechanism to undercut transnational migrants' constitutional and practical mobility rights, rights that transients harnessed. This chapter reveals how enacting controls around migrants' local mobilities has been crucial to the "making" of migrant agricultural workforces in Canada.
520 $a In the second article I identify how systemic immobilities for SAWP workers are enacted by Canadian family farm operators. I show how Canadian family farms benefit from high levels of personal and intimate interaction with SAWP employees. I identify how operators impose high limitations and constraints as to when, where, and how migrants can travel beyond formal work hours.
520 $a Finally, the third article examines how migrants have forged bicycling geographies in rural places and how migrant bicyclists are perceived in Canadian communities. Migrants are more vulnerable as bicyclists, do not bike out of choice, and have become subjects of bike safety education. I argue that racial and economic forms of exploitation as well as socio-spatial exclusions inflect actually existing bicycling geographies.
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