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Caribbean
& Mexican Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program-Overview
2004
Agricultural Prevailing Wage Rates - Ontario Region
DFAIT
Mexican
Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program
2006
HRSDC AGREEMENT FOR THE EMPLOYMENT IN CANADA OF SEASONAL AGRICULTURAL
WORKERS FROM MEXICO
CONSEJERÍA AGROALIMENTARIA DE MÉXICO EN CANADÁ, Mexican
Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program
-Mexican
workers in BC
-2004
Spanish version
-2006
HRSDC AGREEMENT FOR THE EMPLOYMENT IN CANADA OF COMMONWEALTH CARIBBEAN
SEASONAL AGRICULTURAL WORKERS (pdf)
HRSDC
Ontario Region Agricultural Programs and Services
HRSDC
ASSESSMENT UNDER THE SEASONAL AGRICULTURAL WORKER PROGRAM
HRSDC
FORMS AND CONTRACTS TO HIRE FOREIGN WORKERS IN CANADA
HIRING
FOREIGN SEASONAL AGRICULTURAL WORKERS IN CANADA
May 20, 2004-Press Release: Government
of Canada Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program expanded in British Columbia
Ministry of Labour: Does
the Employment Standards Act Cover Agricultural Workers?
Government of Quebec: Immigration
Procedures for Seasonal Agriculture Worker
Canada Customs and Revenue Agency: Are
Seasonal Workers Taxed in Canada?
Canada Revenue Agency: Seasonal
Agriculutural Workers Program 2005 Tax Guide (pdf)
Ontario Provincial Submission to the Canada
Health Act Annual Report 2001-2002. (See section 3.3 other categories
of individuals. It claims migrant migrant workers are exempt from the
three month waiting period for health cards.)
Consejeria Agrolementaria de Mexico en Canada Mexican
Seasonal Agricultural Woerkers Program (pdf)
Seasonal
Agricultural Workers Registration Form for Ontario Health Coverage (pdf)
ACADEMIC
Dr.
Tanya Basok
-Diasporas, Cultural
Divides, and Social Encounters: Mexican Workers and Their Rights (pdf)
- Tortillas
and Tomatoes: Transmigrant Mexican Harvesters in Canada
- Centre for Comparative Immigration Studies: Human
Rights and Citizenship-The Case of Mexican Migrants in Canada (April 4, 2003)
- Diasporas,
Cultural Divides, and Social Encounters: Mexican Workers and Their Rights (pdf), Presented
at The International Migration
- Conference in The Americas: Emerging Issues Conference. York University September
2003. Draft Document.
-International Migration, Mexican
Seasonal Migration to Canada and Development: A Community-based Comparison, Volume
41.2 July 2003.
Centre for Excellence for Research on Immigration
and Integration:Borrowed
Men on Borrowed Time: Globalization, Labour Migration and Local Economies
in Alberta (Spring 1997) by Josephine Smart (PDF)
Rural
Labour Force Project, University
of Guelph
Dr. Deborah Barndt, Bibliography
- Foreign Environmental Activism and Sustainable Global Development "Fruits
of Injustice:Women in the Post-NAFTA Food System"
- Women's Studies Quarterly- Women and the Environment "On
the Move for Food: Three Women Behind the Tomato's Journey"
- Latin American Studies Association Annual Conference March 2000 "Women's
Flexible Labour in the NAFTA Food System: Stories of Spatial and Temporal Migration
Jenna
Hennebry, Wilfred Laurier University, Compilation on Mexican Migrant
Workers http://www.jennahennebry.com/fences.html
Migrant
and Seasonal Hired Adolescent Farmworkers: A Plan to Improve Working
Conditions, November 2003,
National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety National
Farm Medicine Center Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI, USA
Sonia
Di Biase & Harald Bauder University
of Guelph (Research Project with
some online articles) Immigrants
in Rural Ontario: Labour Force Development, Settlement and Community
Services
Harald
Bauder & Kerry
Preibisch University
of Guelph (Research Project with some online articles) Community
Impacts of Foreign Farm Workers in Ontario: A Comparative Analysis See
Report in PDF Impact
of Foreign Farm Workers in Rural Communities
Harald
Bauder and Margot Cobin, Foreign
Farm Workers in Ontario: Representations in the Newsprint Media
Forthcoming by Bauder: “Landscape and Scale in Media
Representations: The Construction of Offshore Farm Labour in Ontario,
Canada. ” Cultural Geographies (formerly Ecumene). / "Labor Movement:
How Migration Regulates Labor Markets." New York: Oxford University
Press.
The book contains three chapters on migrant farm workers in Ontario.
Globalization
and International Migration Online Course Modules-U of T & CERIS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Environmental
Inequality Bilbiography, by Dr.
Andrew Szasz and Michael Meuser
Fighting
Enviromental Racism: A Selected Annotated Bibliography by
Irwin Weintraub
Migrant
Farm Labour Legal Bibliography 2004-1980s, compiled by Adrian
Smith-J4MW (pdf)
Bibliography on
Migrant Farm Workers in North America, compiled by Katie
Hinnenkamp-J4MW (pdf)
National Library of Medicine, Listing
of Migrant Workers References
Canadian Anti-racism
Education and Research Society: Search under "Racism and
the Farm Labour: Bibliography" for link
Migrant
Workers' Health Bibiliography Hartwick
College, USA (some articles are relevant to the Canadian context)
Farm
Worker Narratives/Oral History Student
Archival Assingment by Megan Tremain, includes useful bibliography
at the end
In-Print
Materials for César Chávez and Migrant Farm Workers
Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve, Teacher
Resource for Ceasar Chavez Day by Margaret Hill, Ph.D.
Annotated
Bibliography of Fiction and Nonfiction on Migrant Farmworkers Prepared
by the Staff of the Migrant Special Education Training Project, School
of Education, New York
AN
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON HUMAN RIGHTS OF MIGRANTS,
Prepared by Migrants Rights International
"The
Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle" Documentary Bibliography
Cesar
Chavez and the United Farm Workers: A Selective Bibliography by
the Boston Latin School
LAW
Full
Decision of Dunmore
v Ontario 2001 (Right to Organize for Farmworkers)
Synopsis
of Dunmore Decision
2001
Charter Commitee on Poverty Issues Intervention
on Behalf of Migrant Farmworkers in the Dunmore Decision 2001 (From CCPI)
International
Law: United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Migrant
Workers
NON-GOVERNMENTAL
World
Wildlife Federation, Occupational
Risks from Pesticides
Women
and the Economy, Globalization & Food
Social Development Report, NGO
Reports
At
the Source, Summer 2002, Cultivating
Health and Safety
North
American Agreement on Labour Co-operation (NAALC) 2002, Protection
of Migrant Agricultural Workers in Canada, Mexico, and the Unitied
States (also
in Spanish)
Guide
to Labour and Employment Laws for Migrant Workers, NAALC
CUPE Ontario Issues: Human
Rights Group Slams Tory Legislation
United Food and Commercial Workers Union National
Report:Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada December 2002
Zindabad!
BC Farmworkers Fight for Rights 1995 by Murry Bush and the Canadian
Farmworkers' Union
North South Institute, Workshop Findings, Conclusions
and Recommendations of the First Comprehensive Study on Canada's Seasonal Agricultural
Workers Program November 21-22, 2003
Tom Clark, Migrant
Workers In Canada (pdf), Inter-Church Committee for Refugees, May 2000
UFCW and Canadian Labour Congress National
Report on the Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada (pdf), December
2002
The
Regularizationof Non-status Immigrants in Canada by OCASI
Workers
of Colour within the Global Economy (pdf) CLC Research Paper on
Migrant Workers by Verda Cook, December 2004 *NEW
Status Campaign Documents
for Discussion *NEW
NEWS MEDIA
Canada.com, Torturous
Tunes Push Workers Over the Edge
CBC News, Migrant
Workers
Western Producer, Thursday February 27, 2003, Union
to Defend Farm Workers
PEI CBC Radio, January 24 2003, Farmers
Say Migrant Help Wanted
World
Socialist Web January 6, 2003, Ontario
Tories Deny Farm Workers Trade Union Rights
CKtimes, December 17, 2002, Migrant
Worker Rights Adopted by UN
Share, August 29,2002, Jamaican Farm Worker Dies, www.sharenews.com/8-29-home.html (Go
to news subheading and click on 2nd story)
International Socialist Workers, Migrant
Farmworker Killed on the Job
Trent
Magazine, Who
Grows our Food?
Birchmark Magazine,Oct 2002, Agricultural
Sweatshops in Canada: government programs have been allowing maximum "flexibility" for
employers for nearly forty years
Workers Rights, January, 1, 2004. Of
Human Import-Migrant Farm Workers in Canada
J4MW IN THE NEWS
Call
for Inquest into Farm Workers Death, SHARE, December 22, 2004. *NEW
October 28, 2004. Eye Magazine. The
fruits of their labour: One Toronto photographer turns his lens on the migrant
workers who put food on our tables
October 11, 2004. Maclean's Magazine. Hard
Time in Canadian Fields Conditions can be tough for our 19,000 migrant
workers
December 18, 2003. Labour Start Government
Responsible for Unjust Working Conditions For Migrant Farm Workers
Tue Dec 23 2003. Advocate, Migrant
Worker Relief
Saturday August 29,2002. Jamaica Observer. Vigil
in Canada for Dead Jamaican Farm Worker
August 30, 2002. Canada Newswire. (Press release) Justice
for Migrant Farmworkers- A Vigil
The Coast, Peter Trainer, A
Growing Concern
FILM
El
Contrato, National Film Board, Min Sook Lee. TV
Ontario's educational webpage on El Contrato
El
Contrato Viewer's Guide by Evelyn Encalada Grez
The
Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle
H2 Worker,
Stephanie Black.
Escuela,
Hanna Weyer.
Aumento
YA!, PCUN, Online Video, this video is a documentary on the struggle
for justice and respect for migrant farm workers in Oregon
Featured Pan Left Video Immokalee: a story of slavery & freedom-www.panleft.org
ORGANIZATIONS
Canadian
Based
The
London Diocesan Migrant Workers Committee
United
Food and Commercial Workers Union, Agricultural
Workers
ENLACE (Community
Link) Inc
Community legal education of Ontario - www.cleo.on.ca
African Canadian Legal Clinic - www.aclc.net
USA
Based
Pineros
y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers
United) - www.pcun.org
Maquiladora Health & Safety
Support Network
Coalition of Immokalee Workers - www.ciw-online.org
Labour Start Org - www.labourstart.org
Farm
Worker Labour Organizing Committee - www.floc.com
Centro Campesino - www.centrocampesino.org
The Farmworkers Association, Florida - www.farmworkers.org
CITA (Centro Independiente de Trabajadores Agrícolas)--Independent Farmworkers
Center - www.citany.org
The Farmworker Support Committee-El Comite de Apoyo a Los Trabajadores Agricolas
- www.cata-farmworkers.org
December 18: Human Rights of Migrant Workers - www.december18.
net
Pesticide Action Network North America: Farm Workers Campaign - www.panna.org/campaigns/workers.html
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights - www.nnirr.org/index.html
Open
Directory Project of Organizations and Resources in North America
International
Equality
Trade Union (South Korea Migrant Worker Unit) - migrant.nodong.net
Asian
Migrant Centre - http://is7.pacific.net.hk/~amc
Mexico: CIEPAC - http://www.ciepac.org/index.html
Kav
La'Oved, (Migrant Workers in Israel) www.kavlaoved.org.il
United Farm Workers of America - www.ufw.org
MAPS
Official
Road Map of Ontario: http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/map
Map Quest: http://www.mapquest.ca
REFERENCE
Stalker's
Guide to International Migration: http://pstalker.com/migration
December 18th: International Migration Day: What
is it?
Canada Immigrant Job Issues: http://www.canadaimmigrants.com/
David Oswald Mitchells Migrant Workers Home Page http://www.bethechange.ca/migrantworkers/index.html
Women in the Global Economy: Migration
Migration News: clearing house of information pertaining to migrant workers from
the University of California at Davis http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/
Home Page of Journalist David Bacon: Bacon has covered issues pertaining to migrant
farmworkers for over thirty years http://dbacon.igc.org/
IDEALS : International Development Education Advanced Learning Strategy http://www.ideals.nu/
Independent Study Committee on Mexico Glendon College, York University http://mexico2006.homelinux.org *NEW
EN ESPAÑOL
Red
Internacional de Migración y Desarrollo
Jornada UNAM: Canadá,
Los Otros Braceros
CIEPAC: Los
Trabajadores Mexicanos en Canada: Mano de Obra "Semiesclava" Que Fox
Quiere Impulsa en EEUU Version
en Ingles
Rosa María Vanegas García, Revista Mexicana
De Estudios Canadienses: Mexico
y el Caribe en el Programa Agricola Canadiense, Octubre de 2003. Vol.1.
6
Consulado
General de Mexico en Toronto: PROGRAMA
DE TRABAJADORES AGRICOLAS TEMPORALES MEXICO – CANADA
Documentos
para Trabajadores Agricolas Mexicano del Consulado
Secretaría
del Trabajo y Previsión Social - México
DFAIT-Cooperación
Canada-México
2004
ACUERDO PARA EL EMPLEO TEMPORAL DE TRABAJADORES AGRICOLAS MEXICANOS EN
CANADA (pdf)
Antonieta, Barrón. Segmentación
y flexibilización en los mercados de trabajo rurales, dos conceptos cuestionables
en dos estudios de caso.
Jornaleros de San Quintín, Baja California, Mexico y jornaleros mexicanos migrantes
a la región de frutas de Niagara on the Lake Ontario, Canada (pdf)
Ofelia
Becerill Quintana. Relacion
de Genero, Trabajo Transnacional y Migracion Temporal: Trabajadores y Trabajadoras
Agricolas Mexicanas en Canada