Labor Migration to Spain and Canada
RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES
Fall Quarter 2007
Produce & Production “In Season”: Comparing International Labour Migration – Canada & Spain
Jenna L. Hennebry
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada
Please note special meeting day and time
Monday, December 3, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Eleanor Roosevelt College Administration Building
Conference Room 115, First Floor
Reception to follow
Examining the political and economic frameworks of agricultural labour migration systems and the experiences of temporary migrants within these systems, this paper provides a comparative analysis of Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program, with specific reference to the United States and Spain. This research is based on the analysis of secondary data on labour migration flows in Canada and Spain, labour migration policy frameworks and managed migration practices in Canada and Spain, and extensive qualitative data collected between 2002-2006 on Mexico-Canada migration. Preliminary qualitative data and secondary quantitative data on Moroccans in Spain provide valuable comparisons. Seasonal agricultural migration systems are argued to be recursively related to globalization (and new agricultural production regimes), where foreign labour dependence and remittance economies are created and perpetuated through globalization and a “migration industry” powered by new information and communication technologies. In addition, foreign labour dependence under the conditions of globalization, structures the constrained transnational practices of migrant workers and their families within the institutional parameters of managed labour migration systems.
Dr. Jenna L. Hennebry has an academic background in sociology and demography, specializing in the political economy of international labour migration. She has work experience in academic, public policy, and applied research domains, utilising both qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches. Research interests include comparative studies of Mexican-Canadian and Moroccan-Spain labour migration policies and practices, the formation of migration industries around temporary migration flows, migration policy and foreign worker programs, transnational practices among labour migrants and their families, migrant worker health and human rights, ICTs & development among migrant sending and receiving communities. Recent research includes extensive qualitative fieldwork and interviewing with Mexican seasonal migrants and their families, and comparative studies of Morocco-Spain labour migration.
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