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Le Rôle Du Programme Des Travailleurs Agricoles Saisonniers (Ptas) Dans La Vulnérabilisation Des Travailleurs Migrants Au Canada, Cindy Gagnon, Alexandre Couture Gagnon

Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Every year, over 25,000 people from Mexico and the Caribbean migrate to Canada through the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) to work on a Canadian farm. To what extent does the SAWP, as an institution, impact the vulnerability of migrant agricultural workers? The insights and explanations provided by neo-institutional theory's three streams help to better account for the complexity of the economic and socio-historical SAWP-generated factors that affect the situation of migrant workers. It is shown that this program has created and continues to perpetuate a context in which it is difficult for migrant workers to have control over their …